CONGESTION at SA ports and other factors affecting the reliability of goods movement in and out of the country have led to the automotive sector studying the merits of a scheduled emergency airlift into SA.

This would be aimed at replacing the ad-hoc emergency booking of air cargo space, which occurs now as each manufacturer struggles to keep the conveyor belts rolling.

"It's a fact of life that product is air-freighted because of inefficiencies in the supply chain, or stock being lost or damaged in a plant," said the logistics manager of the Automotive Industry Development Centre, Barlow Manilal ......
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