Zulu takes top post at RailRoad Africa

LEONARD NEILL
QUEDI TED Zulu has taken over as business development director at inland transport specialist RailRoad Africa.
He also heads up Rail Road Holdings (RRL), is a director of Nationwide Cargo Terminals - which he formed with Cargo Movers director Nanda Naidoo - and is a member of the board of directors and executive committee of P&O Ports Nationwide.
Each company, as he points out, has a link in the chain of transportation from shipper to harbour.
“I believe in creating partnership thinking. Each company with which I
am involved is also involved in black empowerment. My aim is to harness the working operation of each into a partnership with the others.”
Zulu started his career in the Durban marketing division of Spoornet in 1995, dealing with the utility’s clearing and forwarding clients.
Seven years later, having worked with Alpha Cement as one of Spoornet’s clients, he encouraged his head office to empower him in a private capacity in order to take up the tender to handle the cement company’s rail contracts.
“That was how RRL was founded. I am the sole shareholder, and am currently involved in negotiating the purchase of locomotives which RRL will operate privately.”
Realising that the concessioning of some
port facilities called for a one-stop type of operation, he and Nanda Naidoo, as directors of road transport company Cargo Movers, established Nationwide Cargo Terminals ahead of expected privatisation of terminal operations.
“We were then approached by P&O Ports who were looking for a black partner firm to join them. We now have 30% of P&O Ports Nationwide.”