PM Africa Magazine Issue 01 | Page 54

Logistics most important resources we bring to this complex process are our ‘tools” (including information technology and engineering know-how), our leadership and our first-hand experience with proactively leading and managing not only change but also the partnership process that deals successfully with this change. To effectively manage these processes, Concargo utilises an operations consistency team and a customer care team. These professionals focus on the day to day operation of a customer’s business as well as on the potential problems or opportunities a customer may face in the future. The solidarity of our joint effort built on open, honest communication and cooperation also enables us to deal with changes, transitions, challenges and improvements with greater speed and efficiency. With our customer, we lower total system costs, transform our integrated business process, facilitate business growth and change, and provide better service and information to our customer and to our customer’s customer. By building a strong collaborative relationship we believe we can achieve things together that neither of us could achieve alone. The secret to success is to know more than others Concargo has been operating for 27 Years, maintaining slow but consistent growth, preferring to remain focused on high value cargo and not perpetuate growth through high volumes of traffic associated with low value commodities. Whilst we are a Non Asset based business, we followed the lead of SAB in the late 1980’s and opted for the dedicated Owner driver and quality sub-contractor” route, sweating the asset.   Concargo’s current road freight network offers a direct link from all Ports in South Africa to Angola, Botswana, Congo and Southern Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Concargo is able to facilitate inter regional transport between countries on the rest of the continent through its extensive network of Agents. Concargo is not a Forwarding company and has remained a neutral supplier of surface terrestrial road haulage services to the Clearing and Forwarding industry. Concargo has established a strategic partner network throughout the African continent and is able to offer an on-carriage service from all main sea ports to central, landlocked countries, whilst referring turnkey business to our Clearing and Forwarding strategic partners. Concargo’s West Coast corridors Concargo Walvis Bay Namibia opened its office in June 2014. The facilities include a warehouse with 2500 sqm Bond store, 500 sqm Free Store, 1000 sqm reinforced concrete yard and 500 sqm office block with full container handling and materials-handling equipment. There are also Truck dock levellers for loading/ packing and unloading/unpacking of containers, gantry and cranes for handling of project cargo and an unlimited road bond for cargo on-forwarding into Angola, Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa Strategic business partnerships & alliances for collaboration Concargo, as a captivated stakeholder in the development of our continent, and who has specific competencies and experience in supply chain solutions and onshore and offshore logistics, is keen to engage with all other stakeholders, be it Government, Private Sector, or communities, to seek the most efficient and effective solutions to challenges inherent in infrastructure development. We help our clients save large amounts of money, improve efficiencies, and avoi