OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEMBERS
- Co-location and reduced time and distance on the road provide additional value to an inland port.
- Once the Inland Port is operational, the value of the surrounding land increases exponentially.
- MIPA members can share, ideas, safety, operational, training, and environmental best practices.
- MIPA members benefit from pre-agreed Interchange Agreements for seamless freight movement, between Inland ports.
OUR MEMBERS
Warwick Lord
Chairman: MIPA
Mr. Warwick Lord is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)of the Cato Ridge inland Port ’’CRIP” Pty (Ltd). The purpose of this project is primarily to improve efficiencies in the movement of freight and promote industrial development along the Durban – Free State – Gauteng corridor as one of the most strategic arteries of the South African economy. The project aims to develop a Strategic Dry Port in Cato Ridge as a Back of the Port facility that seeks to lower the cost logistics, promote efficiency and decongest the Durban port and CBD thereby creating additional capacity for the port.
Johan Kruger
Managing Director: Autoforce
Autoforce offers a comprehensive range of logistics and terminal solutions in the Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, as well as the Ports of Ngqura, Gqeberha, and more recently Lüderitz, Namibia. With a dedicated team and JV partners, they aim to offer unique transportation and supply chain services that are efficient, effective, and most importantly, sustainable.
Nick Ferguson
CEO: Cape Winelands Airport
Cape Winelands Airport delineates a strategic vision for the airport’s evolution from a modest airfield to an influential commercial and aviation centre. The blueprint underscores the airport’s ambitious goal to emerge as a global leader in sustainability, technology, and growth rates. More than just an aviation hub, the strategy emphasises the airport’s potential as an engine for regional economic development and local community inclusion.
Bertie Phillips
Managing Director: CTIP
Cape Town Inland Port (CTIP) is in the initial planning stages and is being developed in parallel with and adjacent to the Cape Winelands Airport (CWA). It is a highly strategic location for a multimodal inland port, with connectivity to road, rail and air freight and linkages to the Port of Cape Town. The 50ha site is close to Belcon, a nearby rail hub; container freight can be easily distributed for both import and export via the Port.
Follie van Zyl
Managing Director: MAC Group
Follie van Zyl is the Managing Director at MAC Group of Companies and a founding member of Musina Multimodal Terminal (MIT). MIT promotes and drives regional economic integration and growth. MIT has strategically positioned itself to be the logistics solutions provider of choice for cargo owners and shippers who seek efficient and cost-effective supply chains on the North-South Corridor, from the DRC to Durban, and vice versa.
Oliver Roper
Managing Director: Portfutures Pty (Ltd)
Portfutures aims to regenerate City Deep public assets in South Africa. The regeneration initiative will renew 68 hectares of Transnet land at Kazerne to deliver the City Deep regeneration project – 1M sqm of rail-connected, carbon-neutral warehousing including a new rail terminal with a capital value of R12.7Bn and the creation of over 13,700 direct jobs and 35,000 indirect jobs.
Ian Bird
Executive Consultant: Board of RailRunner Services (Pty) Ltd
RailRunner South Africa Pty (Ltd) aims to deploy technology that can run on both road and rail without handling the cargo. This technology will increase supply chain efficiency by relieving port or terminal congestion in local, regional, and national corridors. This will result in the creation of job and business opportunities – promotion of SMME businesses.
Mike Daniel
Managing Director: RailRunner South Africa Pty (Ltd)
RailRunner South Africa Pty (Ltd), which aims to deploy technology that can run on both road and rail without handling the cargo. This technology will increase supply chain efficiency by relieving port or terminal congestion in local, regional, and national corridors. This will result in job and business opportunities, with a particular focus on SMME businesses. A typical 50-container RailRunner train traveling 900 km creates an estimated carbon savings of 13,596 tons.
Tumi Mohulatsi
CEO: Tambo Springs Logistics Gateway
Tambo Springs Logistics Gateway has a 6 000 000 m² world-class development that will bring together all aspects of warehousing, distribution, and manufacturing through solutions to enhance the supply chain operating efficiencies. The development offers end-users a rail and road-based container terminal that has direct connectivity to the Southern African ports, and more importantly the ports of Durban, Cape Town, and Ngqura.
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