Storage and distribution in southern Africa the speciality
ALAN PEAT
SPECIALISTS IN information technology (IT) warehousing and distribution, RTS Logistics offers a local and cross-border warehousing operation that fulfils the needs of the region’s IT sector.
The family warehousing and distribution business handles a range of computer products from large computer hardware to desktops PCs, screens and savers, says CEO, Praveen Premlal.
This, Premlal added, is mainly for imports, with RTS conducting the storage and distribution in the southern African region.
“We also have a highly sophisticated warehousing and distribution package of our own,” he told FTW.
“This allows computer track-and-trace of each package, with details of how long a product stands in storage, for example.”
The system - which links to both customers and the distributors - also allows its client-base to check stock on the RTS website, Premlal added.
The company has local warehouses in all the major centres - Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London and Nelspruit.
“We have 1 000m2 warehouses at each of these branches, with each facility camera-controlled and fully secured.”
Overborder, RTS also has warehousing facilities in Zambia, Nigeria, Malawi, Botswana and Mozambique.
“In South Africa our warehouses are normal open facilities. But overborder, they’re all bonded warehouses, designed to fit the market demands in those countries.”
While the combined warehouse chain handles mostly IT equipment, it also offers the market consolidation of general cargo. “A small, but valuable extra product in our range of services,” said Premlal.
