Project Cargo

Setting the blueprint for complex logistics operations in Africa.

- Thomas Okbo

As one of the fastest developing areas of the world, Africa holds immense potential. The continent has significant reserves of natural resources, from agricultural products, to precious metals and stones, and from rare earth minerals to oil and gas, which together help to fuel exports to global markets.

These sectors have long provided the backbone to Africa’s burgeoning economy, but the tempo is now rapidly shifting, bringing with it significant opportunities for players across the supply chain, and for the customers that they serve.

With governments up and down the continent promising to transform transportation infrastructure, supply chains across the region are expected to develop and modernise significantly. There has already been a steady growth in inward investment in recent years, and many logistics companies and service providers – including GAC – have been expanding their existing operations to meet the changing demands of customers in Africa. In addition to the requirements of ‘regular’ cargo shipments moving to, from and within the region, GAC also has the rare capabilities required by more unusual and complex feats of logistics prowess.

Although low oil prices have forced customers across the industry to put some larger projects on hold, there are still many industry sectors in which we see exceptional demand for project logistics, thanks in part on underlying economic growth and infrastructure investment in Africa.

To the uninitiated, complex logistics projects can seem like near-impossible marvels of organisation. In truth, while so called ‘project cargo’ operations are complex, they are made simpler by access to a global network and the creation of a blueprint for the international transportation of large, heavy, high value or critical pieces of equipment.