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South Africa’s
Logistics Experts PRODUCTION: Timothy Reeder
As a global industry leader with more than 140 years of logistics experience, DB Schenker is committed to providing innovative supply chain solutions that challenge the status quo, supporting industry and trade in the global exchange of goods.
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DB Schenker is the world’s leading global logistics provider, offering solutions across land transport, worldwide air and ocean freight, contract logistics and supply chain management. Its value-added services ensure that the flow of goods continues seamlessly and supply chains stay lean and optimised for success, keeping moving a flow of
goods which allows an effective link between carriers at the world’s most important intersections. It holds top spots in global air and ocean freight and boasts Europe’s densest land transport network, achieved through a combination of rich heritage, decades of experience and the delivery of superior service. DB Schenker’s unparalleled
network means that it holds a local, regional, and global presence in nearly every business market, For over a century, it has provided innovative logistics solutions for all modes of transportation. Schenker South Africa’s employees, meanwhile, are divided between the company’s bases in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and East London.
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INDUSTRY FOCUS: TRANSPORT
South Africa today boasts one of the largest economies in Africa, and is the most developed country within subSaharan Africa. It has been pinpointed and in 2010 inducted among the BRICS countries, the acronym for an association of five major emerging market economies alongside Brazil, Russia, India and China. Jakkie Cilliers, the head of the African Futures and Innovation Program at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in South Africa believes that, as an association of emerging economies, BRICS will play an active role in the future. “BRICS remains important on the global stage as kind of a balance within the G20 to balance the influence of the G7 grouping,” he states. “Certainly for South Africa BRICS remains important and if one looks at the other members of BRICS, Brazil, China,
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Russia, almost all of them have of course depended on the big heavyweight China which is the number one trading partner almost for all of these countries. For South Africa, BRICS is very important, we are something like 3% of the total BRICS economy, but we are considered by the partners to be the leader, a leader in Africa.” There are several central facets which combine to give South Africa such a strong position, among which it counts well-developed financial, legal, communications and transport sectors, as well as an open trade policy and a strong domestic market. It is also the best performer in Africa when it comes to trade facilitation logistics, and is among the best in terms of its transport infrastructure.
// OUR SUCCESS SHOWS THAT GOOD PERFORMANCE AND A HIGH COMMITMENT MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO WIN AND KEEP CUSTOMERS // Whilst its logistics services within South Africa are highly diversified, DB Schenker SA focusses its attention on selected key industries. Its Ocean arm comprises hi-tech vessels with the capacity to transport up to 12,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in one shipment - indeed, the movement
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of close to 1.8 million TEUs per annum positions DB Schenker among the world’s leading ocean logistics providers. Under its DB Schenker Air umbrella, meanwhile, SCHENKERsky’s global approach ensures the delivery of perfectly scheduled and coordinated air freight solutions. Distribution concerns in the territory are handled by Schenkerfreightexpress (SFX), which integrates South Africa’s national land and logistics network with world-class infrastructure, logistics capabilities and global experience to service customers in 5500 destinations across South Africa and into sub-Saharan Africa. The final aspect of an extensive portfolio of service offerings is the crucial arm of Logistics solutions, which sees Schenkerwarehousing fulfil outsourced storage requirements through flexible and reliable warehousing in all major centres of South Africa. Having established this industryleading set of service offerings, DB Schenker has for many years now been looking to further solidify its ever-growing presence in Africa, as embodied through a recent set-up in Angola and a first branch office in Mozambique. In 2005, DB Schenker in Portugal was nominated as the responsible organisation for all shipments to and from Angola on a global level. Philippe Gilbert, regional director of West Europe and responsible for countries in West Africa at DB Schenker Logistics, said that the integration of Bochimar would serve to fortify DB Schenker’s presence in Angola. “We will continue our current focus on trades between Europe and Angola, and we will certainly expand our service offering into oil and gas activities,” he concluded. Located in Maputo, DB Schenker’s office in Mozambique is a branch office of Schenker South Africa, and is positioned to handle all in and outbound air and ocean freight shipments, as well as oil and gas projects. Dr Thomas Lieb, Chairman of the Schenker
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AG Board of Management and responsible for the worldwide business of DB Schenker Logistics, explained that: “This process will fortify our presence in Angola and will guarantee innovative and cost-efficient transport and logistics solutions from one source. “In line with our growth strategy, we continue to intensify our own presence in interesting markets. We are convinced that future growth in the global economy will also come from Africa.” Another significant expansion in recent years has been a strategically located centre in Kenya, five kilometres from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, to combine convenience and growth prospects by connecting the port of Mombasa and the East African hinterland. DB Schenker’s Regional Product Manager Logistics, Near
Middle East & East Africa Ako Dja, explains that: “It is through our quality services and excellent work that we have been able to get big clients like GlaxoSmithKline and Organo Gold, who have transferred all their storage and transport business within Kenya as well as other markets in Eastern and Central Africa to DB Schenker.” Thomas Lieb concludes on DB Schenker South Africa’s leading position in the country: “Our success shows that good performance and a high commitment makes it possible to win and keep customers, even in an environment that is not always an easy one.”
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