Certifying Hauliers, Safeguarding Assets

DPS March is dedicated to providing effective certification services for hauliers before they are contracted to transport High-Value Cargo (HVC) for mining companies, or their contracted Logistics Service Provider (LSP), to transhipment ports within Southern Africa for export abroad. In this way, the risk of theft of HVC is mitigated.

DPS

DPS March (Africa) has 30 years of extensive experience in the investigation of HVC thefts and risk management assessments on behalf of Lloyds of London and, international Insurers of mining companies, as well as LSPs and HVC owners in the region. The company has set the benchmark in security standards for HVC in transit in the SADC region through its Haulier Certification Service.

Haulier Certification

Introduced in 2010, DPS March’s Haulier Certification Service meets the need for cargo owners, freight forwarders and cargo insurers to identify responsible hauliers who can better safeguard their HVC in transit. The DPS Marchcertified contracted hauliers strictly operate to a prescribed code of security standards to mitigate theft, hijacking and / or driver ‘handovers‘ of HVC.

Mining companies and commodity trading companies, together with their appointed LSPs, are among the biggest clients of DPS March. Through engaging DPS March-certified hauliers, mining companies and traders considerably enhance the prospects of their high-value nonferrous metals and other products reaching their destination securely.

Because of prevailing conditions in the present economic environment, DPS March is advising mining companies and other clients that contracting certified hauliers is more imperative than ever.

Economic hardships, high risks

Currently, there are economic hardships in the SADC region, due to international geopolitical events, as well as poor governance in some countries. Usually, under these conditions, facing hardships, people seek the easy way out of making ends meet and turn to crime.

Even employees of big transport companies, such as drivers, can fall into the temptation of colluding with criminal syndicates to steal the goods they carry. The common modus operandi is driver ‘handovers’, whereby the driver of a loaded truck and trailer combination is corrupted through a financial inducement into handing over his load to thieves.

Evidently, in the current economic climate, there is an elevated level of safety and security