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By Tarren Bolton | All photos by Tarren Bolton
Low profile means high return for local OEM Dezzi and their customer
Octo-Logistics, who have built a unique partnership model borne out
of customisation.
The Dezzi 1200LP is the ideal solution for the container loading and logistics industries.
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ased in Germiston,
Octo-Logistics, whose services
include bulk storage handling
and bagging, falls into the five-
kilometre cartage zone from City Deep
Container Terminal — one of South
Africa's ‘inland ports’.
The logistics company boasts a
12 000m² undercover warehouse, of
which 7 000m² is SOS Bonded, making
it ideal for cargo in transit through
South Africa, be it imports or exports. In
addition, the company has a 6 000m² yard
for cargo utilising the outside storage.
Through the use of mobile ramps, they
are able to load and offload containers
with ease, during any weather conditions.
“Octo-Logistics was established in
2012, and we offer our clients over 70
years of collective senior experience in all
elements of warehousing and logistics,”
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says managing director Kevin Davy.
“We’ve used our experience over the
years to ensure that every one of our
clients receives a personalised service
with attention to detail in every aspect
of their logistics needs — acting as an
extension to all our clients’ businesses for
mutual success,” he adds.
Davy, together with warehouse
supervisor Corné Cordier, and warehouse
manager Dudley Wilskut, collectively
have a 10-year history with Desmond
Equipment SA (Dezzi) products. “We’ve
worked with Dezzis before — mainly the
low-profile 1200 — purely because they
go straight into the containers,” says Davy.
The lekker feel of local
The South African-designed and
manufactured Dezzi low-profile loader is
specifically designed for bulk handling
solutions in areas where machines are
restricted for height clearance. They are
the ideal solution for chicken farmers,
harbours, container loading, and logistic
industries.
“When we started Octo-Logistics
in 2012, we found ourselves getting
into bulk cargoes with a new client. We
bought our first Dezzi about six months
into the contract, and it has just saved
us,” explains Davy. “The Dezzi 1200
has offered so much flexibility: we use
it to bag cargo, to load tippers, we load
containers with it — there are a whole lot
of applications that we use it for. Typically,
the warehouse setting is fairly limiting
in terms of manoeuvrability, and initially
our challenge was, how do we load bulk
product into containers? So, we built
a conveyor belt with a big hopper. The
containers reverse up to it, and we just
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