20 October 2026

Closed-body truck with a roller-deck floor reversed up to an air cargo warehouse dock, with netted cargo pallets and an aircraft in the background

Airfreight Cartage from O.R. Tambo: How Air Cargo Gets from the Airport to Your Door

Airfreight cartage is the road leg that moves air cargo between O.R. Tambo International Airport and the businesses that send or receive it. It covers collecting import cargo once it is released, moving uncleared consolidations to licensed depots and delivering export cargo to the airlines before their cut-off. Air cargo is often urgent, often valuable

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Technician in a hard hat checking the control panel of a refrigerated container plugged into a row of reefer power points at a container depot

Reefer Plug Points at an Inland Depot: Keeping Refrigerated Containers Powered in Gauteng

Reefer plug points are the power connections that keep a refrigerated container running when it is not on a ship or behind a truck fitted with a generator. For Gauteng importers and exporters, they are what make it possible to hold a reefer at an inland depot over a weekend, a public holiday or a

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Forklift operator unloading shrink-wrapped pallets from a shipping container on a truck at a container depot, guided by a worker in a hard hat

Container Unpacking in Johannesburg: How Destuffing and Packing Work at a Customs Depot

Container unpacking is the point where an import shipment stops being a sealed box and becomes pallets, cartons, drums or machinery that someone has to handle, count and deliver. For many Gauteng importers, that step happens at a container depot near City Deep rather than at their own premises. The reasons are practical. Not every

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Truck driver in a hi-vis vest holding a transport emergency card with hazard symbols in the cab, with a fuel tanker visible in the side mirror

What Is a Tremcard? Transport Emergency Cards for Dangerous Goods in South Africa

A tremcard is the transport emergency card that must travel in the cab of every vehicle carrying dangerous goods by road in South Africa. It is a short, product-specific instruction sheet that tells the driver, and anyone who arrives at an incident, what the hazards are and what to do in an emergency. The card

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