World Cup

The 2010 World Cup soccer
tournament – a major highlight of
SA’s next sporting year, and the
first time the cup has been held on the
continent of Africa – has been helping
to keep the projects cargo division of
forwarding operation, Geodis Wilson,
extra busy in recent months.
With more or less a year to go to
the kick-off, according to MD Jan
Ludolph, this global project specialist
has had further successes to report since
completing the logistics for the Moses
Mhabida World Cup soccer stadium in
Durban.
This project was a first consignment
consisting of the 14 000 freight tonnes
of steel that made up the roof arch, and
a second shipment of all the fibreglass
roofing material – occupying about
twenty 40-foot (12-metre) open-top
containers.
The third seafreight movement was
the extremely unusual shipment of the
cable car that will be attached to the
roof arch – and is expected to be a major
tourist attraction in Durban.
The success of the Durban project
encouraged Geodis Wilson in Cape
Town to offer logistics solutions to
interested parties for the Greenpoint
Stadium in the Mother City.
Again, the stadium roof has been
the major cargo movement. This was
shipments of compression, horizontal
and vertical beams, all the glass required
for the roof, fabric for the membrane,
and a lot of accessories – this latter
described by Ludolph as “the nuts and
bolts of the project”.
This cargo for Greenpoint Stadium
– officially due to open in December –
was brought in both by sea and air from
all over the world.
Said Ludolph: “Geodis Wilson
colleagues both locally and
internationally deserve recognition for
being awarded the transport of the roof
structures for the two stadia, as well
as showing how successfully, and with
what vigour, we are making things
happen.”