|
|
|
|
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
|
|
|
| |
| Number of Items found
: 95 |
|
| |
|
| |
|
Low cost is often very high cost |
|
| |
|
|
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources, including energy and people, between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the ...
more>>
Road Ahead Online
30 November 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost controls boost Cargo’s earnings |
|
| |
Cargo Carriers lifted headline earnings per share 13,3% to 62,7c in the six months to August, despite lower volumes. more>>
Business Day (Final), Companies & Markets
3 November 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cargo Carriers hikes profits |
|
| |
Cargo Carriers (CRG), which provides logistics, transport and related IT solutions, on Monday reported a 13.3% increase in headline earnings per share from 55.3c to 62.7c for the six months ended ... more>>
fin24.co.za - FinWeek
3 November 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Talking Logistics |
|
| |
|
|
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources, including energy and people, between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the ...
more>>
Opportunity
1 November 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Owner driver scheme provides grassroots empowerment |
|
| |
One of the largest transporters in the region, Cargo Carriers has marked 48 years of operating in Swaziland by expanding its support of local owner-operated driving initiatives. The company ... more>>
Freight & Trading Weekly
1 November 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Buy-buy to the future |
|
| |
|
|
Transport & logistics group Cargo Carriers is on the acquisition trail. Joint CE Murray Bolton hopes the purchase of recession-hit competitors will enable Cargo to achieve its ambition of ...
more>>
Financial Mail
21 August 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cargo firm shopping for strugglers |
|
| |
CARGO Carriers, the JSE-listed transport company, said this week it was shopping for potential acquisitions as the economic storm showed signs of calming down. more>>
Business Day (Final), Companies & Markets
21 August 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
On the right side of the gods |
|
| |
|
|
DON’T YOU JUST hate trucks? Especially those that insist on trying to overtake each other on a hill, blocking the lanes behind. Or sugar cane trucks on the East Coast that often seem to manage ...
more>>
Finweek
20 August 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cargo Carriers now a Level 6 Contributor to BBBEE |
|
| |
JSE-listed transportation and logistics service provider Cargo Carriers has improved its rating from a Level Seven Contributor to Broad-Based Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) and also achieved ... more>>
bizcommunity.com
11 August 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Oiled Wheels |
|
| |
THE LOWER FUEL PRICES since late last year have lightened the cost load for logistics and supply chain management group Cargo Carriers. The group saw a pedestrian 14% revenue increase in the ... more>>
Finweek
2 July 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Logistics company achieves top empowerment ranking |
|
| |
Transport and logistics company Cargo Carriers was recently ranked third in the transport division of the 2009 Top Empowerment Companies (TEC) survey, achieving the highest Preferential ... more>>
Freight & Trading Weekly
1 July 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Empowerment programme benefits owner-drivers |
|
| |
|
|
A further 11 Swaziland tractor drivers have been appointed as owner-drivers as a result of the success of Cargo Carriers Swaziland empowerment scheme, which already has five owner-drivers. The aim ...
more>>
Logistics News
1 June 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Maintaining standards in tough times |
|
| |
THE transport industry has felt the impact of rapid and dramatic changes in the economic climate before the global financial crisis took hold at the end of 2008. Early last year the ... more>>
Cape Business News
1 May 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Maintain quality standards, maintain advantage |
|
| |
The transport industry has felt the impact of rapid and dramatic changes in the economic climate before the global financial crisis took hold at the end of 2008. Early last year the ... more>>
bizcommunity.com
8 April 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
More sales at less cost … is it possible? |
|
| |
|
|
Worldwide, manufacturers are feverishly exploring ways to maintain sales. This is particularly true for fast-moving and general consumer goods. But new opportunities beckon in distribution ...
more>>
Logistics News
1 April 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Scheduling Cargo |
|
| |
|
|
Making routing and scheduling systems work for you, not against you, is one of the biggest challenges facing the transport industry today. With so many products on the market, the key is finding ...
more>>
Supply Chain Today
1 February 2009
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
South Africa's Greats |
|
| |
|
|
Starting with just one truck in 1956, in 30 years he built Cargo Carriers into one of the world’s largest privately owned trucking companies ...
more>>
Truck & Bus
1 November 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Driver empowerment |
|
| |
|
|
The first four Sasolburg owner-drivers have successfully completed their initial five-year service agreement with Cargo Carriers. THESE four owner-drivers have been responsible for specific ...
more>>
Transport World Africa
1 October 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Green harvesting |
|
| |
|
|
In a world struggling with carbon emissions, one company has opted to help preserve the environment thanks to its ‘green-cut’ method. Cargo Carriers is currently running chopper harvesting ...
more>>
Transport World Africa
1 October 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Test drivers have done a good job |
|
| |
|
|
THE first four Sasolburg Owner-Drivers have successfully completed their initial five-year Service Agreement with Cargo Carriers. The four Owner-Drivers have been responsible for specific ...
more>>
Citizen, The
29 August 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sir Harry’s school sold |
|
| |
|
|
AUCTIONEERS have hammered up the highest ever price paid for a house on auction in South Africa. But it is more than just a house, it used to house a school attended by Sir Harry Oppenheimer.
more>>
Citizen, The
31 July 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Back to 5% tolerance? |
|
| |
|
|
A harmonised vehicle overload control system for southern Africa with a 5% tolerance level on axle and gross combination mass was one of the many topics discussed at the recent Gauteng meeting ...
more>>
Truck & Bus
1 July 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fuel prices hammer players |
|
| |
|
|
SPIRALLING fuel-price hikes are ratcheting up transportation costs for trucking companies, which in many instances are being passed down the supply chain to consumers. Murray Bolton, joint CEO of ...
more>>
Business Day (National)
30 June 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Designed to the highest European safety standards |
|
| |
|
|
SPECIALISED transportation and logistics company Cargo Carriers has just announced a unique partnership contract with one of its long-standing clients, Industrial Urethanes, the market leading ...
more>>
KZN Industrial & Business News
1 June 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Truckers in R36-m contract in Namibia |
|
| |
|
|
JSE-listed specialised transport and logistics company Cargo Carriers was recently contracted by Namdeb Diamond Corporation (Namdeb) to transport petroleum into the secure Namibian ...
more>>
Logistics News
1 June 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Truckers ensure diamonds are forever |
|
| |
ANYONE seeking passage through Namibia’s diamond-rich Sperregebied is subject to rigorous control both before and after traversing the area. When specialised transport and logistics company Cargo ... more>>
Cape Business News
1 June 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cargo Carriers feasts at construction table |
|
| |
According to a recent report by Statistics South Africa, there’s been a 13,7% and a 0,4% rise in the real value of buildings completed and plans passed respectively between January and September ... more>>
FMCG Retailer
1 April 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Innovative Technology - Sweet Success |
|
| |
|
|
In the constant search for additional value and competitive advantage for their customers, Cargo Carriers decided to re-evaluate their business processes and strategies within the sugar industry.
more>>
South African Sugar Journal
1 March 2008
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
DPS wins two major ICT Excellence awards! |
|
| |
|
|
DPS International are proud to announce that we have won two prestigious ICT Excellence awards. The ICT Excellence Awards 2007, organised by West Midlands ICT Cluster and sponsored by Accredit UK ...
more>>
Birmingham Post, UK
26 November 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
A call for a shift in focus |
|
| |
|
|
Effective transport systems are essential to maintaining a thriving economy. In this issue of Transport World Africa, the well known road freight aficionado Garth Bolton, joint CEO of Cargo ...
more>>
Transport World Africa
1 September 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Driving change in the Timber Industry |
|
| |
|
|
South Africa has a bountiful and flourishing timber industry, which has, for the last few years, been growing upwards and outwards at a rapid rate, even by international standards.
more>>
Focus on Transport and Logistics
1 September 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Symphony harmonises logistics networks |
|
| |
|
|
CargoSolutions, supply chain optimisation arm of the JSE-listed logistics leader Cargo Carriers, recently introduced its Symphony software application. The software is driven by Theory of ...
more>>
Logistics News
1 September 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sweet Success |
|
| |
|
|
In its constant drive to offer additional value and competitive advantage to its customers, Cargo Carriers has re-evaluated its business processes and strategies within the local sugar industry ...
more>>
Focus on Transport and Logistics
1 September 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
CargoSolutions branches out with Sappi’s logistics |
|
| |
Forest-to-mill haulage constitutes one of the most significant single cost elements in the forestry industry. For logistics directors and managers, the balance between supply and demand has to be ... more>>
supplychaininfo.co.za
15 August 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cargo Carriers cements partnership with Holcim |
|
| |
As the construction boom in Southern Africa continues so demand for cement grows and one consequence is frenzied activity in the transport industry servicing construction and cement companies ... more>>
The SA Hardware Retailer
1 June 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Hazardous cargo being carried |
|
| |
While new methods for water purification are constantly being explored, liquid chlorine internationally remains as the chemical most widely used in eliminating waterborne bacteria. This vital ... more>>
The SA Hardware Retailer
1 June 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Sugar low hits Cargo Carriers |
|
| |
|
|
Specialised transport and logistics management company Cargo Carriers said yesterday that poor crops in the sugar sector had hurt profitability.
The group’s earnings a share dropped to 149c from ...
more>>
Business Day
11 May 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Crossing Boundaries |
|
| |
|
|
There is often a fine line between profitable cross-border transport and risky business. FOCUS investigates the current trends within this market and examines whether recent upgrades in vehicle ...
more>>
Focus on Transport and Logistics
1 May 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Demand must drive method |
|
| |
TECHNOLOGY has the potential to revolutionise supply chains but it is taking time to get to this point, says Dawid Janse van Rensburg, director of IT at Cargo Carriers.
He says traditional ... more>>
Business Day Final
11 April 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A walk on the wild side |
|
| |
|
|
The Madagascar Declaration - the June 2006 agreement between South Africa and other African nations to promote the continent's unique natural environment for socio-economic gain - underscores ...
more>>
Focus on Transport and Logistics
1 April 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Transportation of toxic liquids |
|
| |
|
|
WHILE new methods for water purification are constantly being explored, liquid chlorine internationally remains as the chemical most widely used in eliminating water-borne bacteria. This vital ...
more>>
Cape Business News
1 April 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Are SA 3PLs and 4PLs really adding value? |
|
| |
Adopting a name or a title for yourself is rather easy these days, especially so as many of us are confused by the meaning of these terms, or the flood of acronyms! more>>
Logistics News
1 April 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Leading the pack |
|
| |
Leading logistics management company, Cargo Carriers, was recently honoured by representatives of the Chemical and Allied Industries' Association (CAIA) when its directors signed a pledge to ... more>>
Transport World Africa
1 March 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cargo Carriers (share price information) |
|
| |
An old style and family-owned transport business – which, unlike others, hasn’t diversified aggressively into broader logistics and associated industries. Cargo, which has been operating for ... more>>
Finance Week
22 February 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Optimised fleet size is a key to cost savings |
|
| |
|
|
The ever escalating expenditure relating to transport and distribution activities draws a lot of attention at board level, and increasing pressures are exerted on middle management and contractors ...
more>>
Logistics News
1 February 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exploring the African Frontier |
|
| |
|
|
Increasing trade relations with our neighbouring countries is beginning to rip the seams of the old logistical jersey. Inefficiency both on an infrastructural and bureaucratic level is beginning ...
more>>
Supply Chain Today
1 February 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bottlenecks disturb cargo flow |
|
| |
|
|
REVAMPS TO Maputo's strategically positioned harbour and the cultivation of the Mozambique Development Corridor have stimulated the movement of approximately R2.8-billion of SA's annual export ...
more>>
Freight & Trading Weekly
26 January 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
FM Cover Story - Transport |
|
| |
|
|
The transport sector had a good 2006, if you were invested in the right company. The FM’s choice, Imperial Holdings, did not disappoint, producing the kind of performance we have come to expect.
more>>
Financial Mail
12 January 2007
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Competitive Innovations by Cargo Carriers |
|
| |
|
|
As logistics claims a sizable portion of all trade costs, its role in competitive sugar pricing is pivotal. And with a global trend towards deregulation and increased competition in logistics ...
more>>
South African Sugar Journal
1 November 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mozambique moved by Cargo Carriers |
|
| |
The announcement by the SA and Mozambican business sector to launch the first South African - Mozambique Chamber of Commerce is a direct reaction to increased trade between the two countries ... more>>
African Connexion
1 October 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Sugar Deregulation: Market Sweetener? |
|
| |
The 966 000 ton shortfall in global sugar supply has been widely reported over the past few months. Contributing a projected R2 billion to SA's GDP this financial year, the debate around the ... more>>
FMCG Retailer
1 October 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cargo Carriers and Senmin retake their vows |
|
| |
Global demand for metal from the industrial heavyweights like China are intensifying in mining and related industries. A good example of the consequences of this can be seen in the mining ... more>>
Moneyweb (Website)
11 August 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Solving Constraints in Transport |
|
| |
With the continuous escalation of costs per kilometre, distribution companies face a huge challenge in terms of keeping rates low while maintaining a reasonable margin in order to exist. However ... more>>
Supply Chain Today
1 August 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cargo Carriers share shines after strategy rethink |
|
| |
Cargo Carriers, the JSE listed specialist logistics and transportation company, recently announced an impressive set of annual financial results for the 2006 financial year, which also sees the ... more>>
South African Sugar Journal
1 July 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Supply Chain IT in African Markets |
|
| |
|
|
It is often remarked that Africa is on the wrong side of the global digital divide. On one side of this divide are those countries with the IT systems, infrastructure and knowledge to use ...
more>>
CEO Magazine
1 July 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
50 good years of moving ahead |
|
| |
|
|
The story of Cargo Carriers is inextricably linked with that its founder Desmond Bolton. Born to a middle class family in Kensington, Johannesburg, he was educated at Kensington's Jeppe High ...
more>>
Business Report National
15 March 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cargo's not waiting for the Industry Charter |
|
| |
Cargo Carriers, the JSE-listed specialised transportation and logistics company has been proactive in its empowerment initiatives in recent years, having embarked on a four level empowerment ... more>>
Business Report National
15 March 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
It all started with steel transportation |
|
| |
Steel was the first sector that the fledgling Cargo Carriers specialised in almost 50 years ago, and the market remains as exciting today as it was during the post-war building boom. "We're ... more>>
Business Report National
15 March 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
It’s all about managing supply |
|
| |
The biggest shift in logistics in South Africa over the past decade has been that of supply chain companies evolving from being predominantly transport providers to also handle distribution for ... more>>
Business Report National
15 March 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Old Faithful rolls along |
|
| |
The ignoble fate that normally awaits the heavy haulage truck at the end of a grueling work life is to be towed away to the scrap yard and sold off as junk. Well, this was not the case for TBJ 1134... more>>
Business Report National
15 March 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Strategic goals led the recovery |
|
| |
For all but five of its 50 years, Cargo Carriers has been under the leadership of the Bolton family, the largest shareholders, firstly with founder Desmond Bolton at the helm and more recently ... more>>
Business Report National
15 March 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The environment, health and safety always comes first |
|
| |
Such are the hazards of an oil or chemical spillage that health, safety and environmental (HSE) management are the single greatest priority when it comes to their transportation. About one-third ... more>>
Business Report National
15 March 2006
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cargo Carriers helps Sugar Industry help itself |
|
| |
Cargo Carriers, the JSE-listed transportation and Logistics company, have in recent years launched three separate grassroots small grower empowerment schemes in the South African sugar industry. more>>
South African Sugar Journal
1 December 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
JV project benefits emerging sugarcane growers |
|
| |
|
|
The 2005 Logistics Achiever Platinum award was recently awarded to the successful empowerment company, Buhle Betfu, which is the inspiration of listed South African transport and logistics company ...
more>>
Engineering News
18 November 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Combining forces for Produce and Transportation |
|
| |
|
|
The future certainly looks a lot brighter for people now able to farm, mostly sugar cane, within the Tenbosch Land Restitution are in Mpumalanga (near Malelane). But their produce wouldn't be ...
more>>
Bulk Handling Today
1 November 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
CargoSolutions |
|
| |
|
|
The name says it all: Cargo Solutions draws on 50 years in the transport industry to offer logistics solutions by the fleet manager, for the fleet manager. TAMLYN MONSON meets the driving force ...
more>>
Focus on Trucking
1 October 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unique transportation deal |
|
| |
|
|
Cargo Carriers has extended its empowerment model in the sugar industry to form a new joint venture between itself and City Square, a company representing the communities of the Tenbosch Land ...
more>>
Supply Chain Today
1 October 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
STEELING the show |
|
| |
Cargo Carriers, the JSE-listed specialised transportation and logistics management company, has announced the conclusion of a significant steel-sector contract with major listed ... more>>
Focus on Trucking
1 September 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cargo Carriers sluit R60m - kontrak |
|
| |
Die genoteerde vervoer- en logistiekebestuursgroep Cargo Carriers het 'n kontrak van minstens R60 miljoen met die staalvervaardiger Highveld Steel & Vanadium gesluit vir die vervoer van Highveld ... more>>
Sake Beeld
8 July 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Carrying its weight |
|
| |
|
|
CARGO Carriers, the specialised logistics and transportation provider, has been listed on the JSE Securities Exchange since 1987. However, it only began to create some serious shareholder ...
more>>
Finance Week
6 July 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unique Empowerment Transportation Deal |
|
| |
|
|
Cargo Carriers have a well established and successful empowerment model in the sugar industry with our sugar cane transport joint ventures with small growers in Mpumalanga, a company called
more>>
CargoComms Newsletter
1 July 2005
Edition 7, 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Buhle Betfu Scoops Platinum! |
|
| |
|
|
Buhle Betfu, in partnership with Cargo Carriers, has won the Logistics Achiever PLATINUM award for 2005 and so got the highest recognition in South Africa's supply chain and logistics industry. There
more>>
CargoComms Newsletter
1 July 2005
Edition 7, 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rugged trucks operate off-road |
|
| |
LISTED transport group Cargo Carriers has been replacing some of its ageing fleet with new modern technology vehicles as part of the transformation to a technology-driven third-party logistics ... more>>
Business Day Company News
21 June 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Boosting Fleets |
|
| |
|
|
Cargo Carriers has acquired 44 new Mercedes-Benz Actros and Axor trucks to modernise their fleet, ...
more>>
Business Day Motor News
9 June 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fighting for honour |
|
| |
|
|
Principled operators, with an active interest in the fate of the industry as a whole, are certainly not a dime a dozen. As journalists, our hearts warm when we discover that they do exist.
more>>
Focus on Trucking
1 June 2005
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
We inherited the future |
|
| |
|
|
Outside the Cargo Carriers Head Office stands a large glass case, the kind you find in museums. On closer inspection, the museum piece turns out to be a Mercedes Benz mechanical horse.
more>>
Unknown
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Better crops bode well for transporters |
|
| |
IT WASN'T just the drop in sugar prices that depressed Cargo Carriers' main clients this past year, but also drought and other weather-related problems that diminished sugar cane harvests. more>>
Freight and Trading Weekly Supplement
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright © 2010 Cargo Carriers Limited. All rights reserved. |
|
|
|
|
