South Africa is connected to Pegase (09/03)

For SDV International Logistics, Pegase is an important managing system that has been developed by our staff to harmonize the operational and accounting systems of our several offices.

It took a few month to equip our offices. The training of the South African staff has been handled by Pegase teams locally to ease the development and the setting up of this project.

Pegase is a truly spread operational system. Thanks to this connexion, our offices are increasing their productivity and they are as well printing harmonized documents no matter the country of origin.

Furthermore, the development of our tracing/tracking system will soon allow it to be connected to Pegase, thereby simplifying the access to your data.

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6,000 tonnes of Bitumen (04/03)

During 2003, SDV Johannesburg, in conjunction with our colleagues in Cameroon and Chad are handling the logistical arrangements for the movement of in excess of 6,000 tonnes of Bitumen.

From arrival of the carrying vessels at Douala, this cargo will be loaded to rail wagons for the journey to Ngoundere in Cameroon, where it will be transferred to road trucks for the 5 day, road journey to Moundou in Chad where it will be used in the establishment of an enhanced road connection with Cameroon.

In close liaison with SDV Cameroon, SDV south Africa have structured the logistics chain from the cargo’s origins in South Africa and Egypt, through to the final destination in Moundou in Chad.

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SDV South Africa on the rails (01/03)

In 2002, SDV South Africa established itself as the key player in the day-to-day business of the African railways. SDV has been an import and export partner of South Africa's national railways since January 2001; our staff arranged the transportation of more than 30 locomotives, each weighing 130 tonnes, from Durban to their final destinations : Kenya, Congo, Cameroon, Sudan...

To ensure secure and appropriate transportation and optimise loading and unloading times, our staff had to create procedures specifically for this type of product: dismantling and loading sequences, manufacture of special supports ...

• Transporting the locomotives by rail up to the loading quay.
• Separating the axles from the wheels (bogies), the average weight being 20 tonnes each.
• Raising and loading the carriages into the ships using a special harbour crane.
• Placing the locomotives on special cradles.
• Developing a technique for loading and unloading the bogies, gaining a considerable amount of time in re-assembly.
• Assembling the locomotives.
• Delivery to the client's warehouse.

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