Road freight delivery in Africa can be a challenging task from time to time. Therefore, transporting goods and services throughout the continent requires a network of support partners, a team that has up-to-date information on multi-country customs and border control requirements, a robust tracking process and hands-on knowledge of diverse infrastructures and knowledge of local conditions. Integrating, organising and meticulously planning from the outset makes a successful road freight service. Anecdote abounds of poorly planned and ‘cheap’ road freight provision that has resulted in trucks being held at border posts for months at a time owing to a lack of understanding of that country’s particular customs requirements.

South Africa has around 36 000 km of installed track of rail accounting for more than 80% of Africa’s installed base with Transnet accounting for around 23 000 km of routes. South Africa has the best rail infrastructure in Africa. However, the rail capacity shortages remain a severe constraint in domestic and regional trade, which is something we can guide and advise customers on to mitigate risk and seek alternative options if required. We can provide turnkey solutions for customers’ railway network requirements.

Lutsinga Logistics provides safe and efficient movement of rolling stock at the customer’s plant.  We can shunt/marshal empty or loaded wagons to designated loading and off-loading bays according to the customers' operational schedules.  We also shunt empty or loaded rail wagons to form block trains or train sets for dispatch or collection at designated points for Transnet Freight Rail to haul to various destinations throughout South Africa and the neighbouring countries.

Lutsinga Logistics provides rail freight handling services such as skip tippler operations for loading and offloading bulk tankers, tarping and de-tarping of rail trucks and the preparation of rail trucks for loading and offloading. We also use front-end loaders, grabs, conveyors, skip bins, Aluminium ingot, container lifting spreaders, lifting spreaders, Antifer block clamps and other lifting equipment.

Lutsinga Logistics offers customers peace of mind that their products and cargoes will be loaded correctly and delivered timeously to their intended destination. We manage customers' export logistics so our customers can focus on their core business while we handle the day to day operational work. Lutsinga Logistics will coordinate, monitor and organise customers shipping logistics from beginning to end. All documentation is prepared and drafted to meet each individual vessel’s requirements. No shipment is too big for us to handle.