GEFCO has opened a filial new in South Africa, nation in which the logistic group is operating to Johannesburg until from 2009 through an office of commercial representation and in which has an own logistic structure now. The new society, with center to Johannesburg, is managed by François Van Wyck, has an organic one of 17 people and previews to widen own force job to 30 units in 2013. GEFCO South Africa currently possesses three warehouses situated in the cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.

the branch South African is mainly in charge of the management of the flows of import and export Overseas on behalf of own industrial customers. The offered services include the transport door-to-door, the accomplishment of the customs formalities, the management of storage, the control quality and the final distribution.

the logistic group has evidenced as South Africa represents one of the more powerful economies of the continent African and possesses extraordinary a growth potential, with meaningful perspectives of development is of the automotive industry that of other industrial fields. In spite of the coastal large sections that appear on the Oceans Atlantic and Indiano - he has found GEFCO - the logistic experts have up to now operated investments limited in South Africa relatively, that constitutes a kind of crossroads marine for numerous routes from and towards Europe, the United States and Asia, in particular China. South Africa borders moreover with various Countries and offers to bonds street and railway connections with the remaining part of the continent African.

Between the realized initiatives in order to develop the activity in the region, last month GEFCO has launch a new solution weekly magazine LCL, a service of marine transport of container-groupage, for goods in departure from its hub European and destined to the South African ports of Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth. The service door-to-door includes also the management of all necessary the customs formalities and is turned to a range wide of industrial customers.

From 2007, moreover, GEFCO is engaged to strengthen own commercial relations in the region being organized a logistic flow between Portugal, Botswana and South Africa and, beginning from 2009, imports, manages storage and distributes the Peugeot spare parts in South Africa and some near Countries, which Swaziland, Namibia and Botswana. This traffic is subdivided between aerial way (approximately 750-1.000 Kg) and marine way (4-6 container to the month).

Moreover during the last few years GEFCO has assisted automotive house PSA Peugeot Citroën to diffuse its presence in the Country, being imported ended vehicles and exporting the pieces of reciprocation and in 2013 it will take in cargo the management of the activities of transport and logistics of Peugeot and Citroën, comprising the reception, storage and the distribution of approximately 12.000 vehicles for the concessionaires situated in the Country. Always this marine year GEFCO container to the month of destined parts to Ford in Argentina. will cure also the export of 30