to finaldelivery, giving theendusermore choice about the ground withinnovative intheRepublic solutions level. with partnership Vodacom was adjudged platinum by DSVwhotook three goldmedalsandRAM whose was representedown industry onthewinner’s podium reflected in the award of four platinum medals. Our to SaldanhaBay hauledby eight locomotives. 3,780m long41,400tonnes iron ore train from Sishen One need only think ofthe world’s longest train – the Africa hasitsown proud record-beating achievements. chains more faster cost-efficient, andsecure. at end. thesharp They are to striving makesupply- where innovation iscoming from thosewhooperate enterprise both ofprivate businessandstate-owned unleashed inourlocallogistics industry. This was true creativityastonished being by thesheerworld-class venue could havetwice over. beenfilled Achiever Awards. 400guestsattended Over andthe seams for banquetto celebrate the29thLogistics The Ballroom at Montecasino was burstingat the Logistic Excellence WELLNESS EXPRESS We are seeing advanced technological solutions on ofentriesthisyearThe was quality outstanding, We may standinawe ofoverseas butSouth practices As amemberofthejudging panel, Iwas WELLNESS EXPRESS SOUTH AFRICANEXPRESS PARCEL ASSOCIATION SAEPA www.saepa.org.za [email protected] Email: 083 3254247 Mobile: Sharon Somerset industry that allcanbeproud of. industry we belongto ahealthy, successful on itsfeet. That underscored therealisation that Dey, gave address astirring ithadtheaudience when Chairman of the Judging Panel, Charles level graduation. Special PlatinumAwardSpecial Platinum Awards Roll ofHonour Such was theenthusiasm ofallpresent that MeerKAT radio telescope supplychains ZZ2 tomatoes Transnet Services Marine withSolethu Saldanhainpartnership Transnet Ceres Rail Vodacom withILSandRAM inpartnership SOUTH AFRICANEXPRESS PARCEL ASSOCIATION SAEPA through to customised degree basic education and training right level ofcareerskills people, from are investing in upgrading the proof ofdelivery. Moreover, we in greater andsecurity certainty where andwhenproviding Year-end edition 2017 Express Parcel Association’s Newsletter The South African •1 • Gold Awards Graeme Lazarus (4thfrom withcolleagues ofRam left) from Vodacom onaccepting theirplatinum award. Logistics Achiever Awards 2017 Services Transnet Postmasburg Marine with Solethu inpartnership Transnet Collaboration Arcelor between Logistics Barloworld Mittal, and withBidvest Panalpina inpartnership Nissan Logistics Volvo withDSV SAinpartnership withDSV Fiat inpartnership Chrysler withDSV BMW inpartnership

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DSV and customer Fiat Chrysler accepting their Gold Award LAA judges panel

Year-end edition 2017 • 2 • News Delivery Skills Development SAEPA Annual Graduation NQF 1-3 “Investing in skills development in our growing industry” Cheryl-Lynn Rhode SAEPA held its annual his annual function allows successful Welcome Zwane learners in from SAEPA graduation for 2016/17 at The RAM Thobani Zulu Aviator Hotel, Kempton Park, Tmember companies to be recognised Suprise Khoza for all NQF 1-3 programmes amongst their peers in the industry. The Maureen Matshidi funded by employers and function is well attended by graduates, company Charmaine Matshidi TETA (Transport Education representatives, training providers and TETA. Vongani Manyike Adele Ramongalo and Training Authority) Garry Marshall (SAEPA), Vongani Manyike (RAM) and Manini Maduna Candice Janse van Rensburg (NOSA Logistics) Discretionary Grants. * * * Congratulations * * * Vuyiseka Ntsali The following learners, countrywide, successfully BEX Bhekumuzi Ndlovu By Martine Marashin completed their learnerships/ qualifications: Magendran Naidoo Geofrey Seanego General Education and Training Brian Ntuli Certificate in Transport NQF 1 Training Provider: NOSA Logistics RTT Nonkuphoko Portia Xatoto Lethukuthula Mkhonzi Ntshangase SAEPA Top Achiever: Vongani Manyike (RAM) Aramex Noncedo Mangali Globeflight Natasha Stalmeester Zukisani Kamte Itumeleng Mmolai Senzo Dlamini Eugene Masiteng Aubrey Manamela Megan Schilder Herman Mathebula Garry Marshall (SAEPA), Pamela Dludlua on behalf of Abduragheem Abdol Claude Ndlovu (Aramex Top Achiever) and Abre van Bidair Cargo Nyiko Khoza Cebelihle Hlengwa Buuren (Makwedeng Training) Coretta Matloha Melony Swanepoel Kagiso Ndhlovu Reeclyn Davids Tracy Oliver Julia Cekwadi Malcolm Kanongovere Neo Romeo Ngobe Nokufa Fetetsane Dawn Wing Lerato Masemola Bongani Mavuso Abongile Katshwa Masello Rejoice Mashaba Emma Mametse Eric Molefe Valentia Sithole DCB Phillemon Morerwa Jude Marcel Pillay Julian Mark Sithambaram Fedex Sello Raphadu Desigan Nair Mpho Manamela SAEPA 8: Garry Marshall, Dikeledi Mosalo (Executive Garry Marshall (SAEPA) Njabulo Hlophe Continued on Page 4 Officer TETA), Martine Maraschin (SAEPA)

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“The learnership has impacted on me in many positive ways and taught me you can have whatever you set your mind to.” – Thamsanqa “Thami” Eugene SD Task Team Support: George Matsinya Kabelo Malema – Student Representative (Dawn Wing), Victor Sibanyoni(RAM); Johannes Molisenyane (Globeflight); Martine Maraschin (SAEPA)

Student Speech – Thamsanqa Matsinga (Professional Driving Graduate) National Certificate: John Rivimbi Road Transport NQF 3 Thulani Mnguni Rachel Mohame Training Provider: Makwedeng National Certificate: Tabiso Mgedle Jan Konoto Professional Driving (NQF3) Silas Oscar Mathebula SAEPA Top Achiever: Claude Ndlovu (Aramex) Training Provider: Learning that RTT Akisani Errol Baloyi DCB Joel Thoka Ngwako Seoka Matters (LTM Solutions) Aramex Selwana Walter Mogaila Mfundo Nkosi Globeflight Thato Kekana Pride Daliwonga Letele SAEPA Top Achiever: Vellaphi Baloyi (Globeflight) David Mathonsi TNT Stanley Mahubung Vellaphi Baloi Globeflight Neverson Duze Lindiswa Nyembe Aramex Jurry Galoshe Precious Ngcobo Jan Kgafela Bonginkosi Sithole Tshifhwa Nemangwela Akile Sithole Thamsanqa Matsinga Vusi Zungu Thulani Made Micheal Madihlaba Acknowledgments Thulani Mthembu SAEPA would like to thank the following : Dawn Wing Alpheus Bokaba • TETA Management and staff for their support and assistance Kgabane Sebati RAM Hendrik Sindane • Member companies for facilitating learning for their people Mudzunga Mavhungu Thivhazuni Badetswana • Learning & development departments, mentors and coaches Frans Mashao Ayanda Mvango TNT Zinhle Ndhlovu • The Skills Development Task Team: Allison Singleton (Globeflight); Karen Reid (Dawn Wing); Natiesha Karim (RAM) Phumlani Mfenguza Tebogo Lulu Mokoena • The Skills Development Support Team: Lucille Esbie (Globeflight); Kabelo Malema (Dawn Wing); Victor Sibanyoni (RAM); Johannes Molisenyane (Globeflight); Lucky Maduwa (RAM), Ann Merven (Alto Training), Nomvula Tshabalala (Alto Training) and Sifizo Zwane (Alto Training)

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A week later, SAEPA held its annual graduation at the same venue for all NQF 4-7 programmes funded by TETA Discretionary Grants and employers. Let SAEPA members recognise the following achievers:

National Certificate Freight Forwarding & Customs Compliance NQF 4 - Training Provider: Metro “When you have access to Minds education, you not only SAEPA Top Achiever: Brandon Simons, TNT empower yourself but those Aramex Terisha Sewraj around you” Aramex Nerissa Govender Supply Chain Management NQF 5 - Jabulile Nkosi, Internal Business Development Globeflight Iveshin Pillay Higher Certificate Supply Chain Management NQF 5 Manager at Dawn Wing Pretoria Sales. Fedex Diagracia Marshele - Training Provider: Metro Minds TNT Elsie Naude Student Message delivered by Jabulile Nkosi, Worldnet Alpheus Smith BCom NQF 7 Graduate from Dawn Wing SAEPA Top Achiever: Globeflight Leroy Roman RTT Kgadi Johannes Ramela Stephen Bagshaw, BEX Globeflight Richard Mohlala RTT Maria Nonhlanhla Further Education Training Globeflight Veresh Ramchurran Sethole Globeflight Tholinhlanhla Mazibuko Dawn Wing Naren Madhan Certificate Generic Management Aramex Kriendren Appalsami Interloc Xolani Khumalo Dawn Wing Louisa van Vuuren NQF 4 - Training Provider: Alto Aramex Dion Moonsamy UPS Tebogo Koopa Dawn Wing Lillian Collins Aramex Bongani Siyabonga Training cc Fedex Matthew Snyman Dawn Wing Tshepo Hlongwane Sithole Fedex Teboho Mantsho Bidair Cargo Ntomb’futhi Nhlabathi Aramex Nomsa Bertha Mosala SAEPA Top Achiever: Jesseca Ramsamy, Globeflight Fedex Marlin Padaychee DCB Samantha Bester Aramex Viloshni Arumugam Globeflight Bongani Treasure Mdlulu Fedex Neo Scheepers DCB Sithembiso Ncube Aramex Madoda Nkosinathi Globeflight Athalia Ouma Seloma RTT Vincent Khosa BEX Cindy Theron Mthembu Globeflight Sello Vincent Malaza RTT Nadia Arendse BEX Vijayanand Maharaj Aramex Khayelihle Zulu Globeflight Dion Mohamed RTT Brendon Julian RAM Thabo Selby Chokoe Aramex Lawrence Mkhabela Globeflight Ashely Phillip RTT Chris van Tonder RAM Ashton van Wyk TNT Neo Charmaine Buthelezi DPE Worldwide Express Pepper Ann Alexander van RTT Victor Alexander Hayes RAM Eric Lindokhuhle Moloi DSV Sasi Collin Moloto Heerden RTT Ngoako Brian Mahashe RAM Simphiwe Rosemary DSV Kagiso Molebatsi Fedex Express Bradely William Johnson RTT Thembelihle Mirander Segacwi DSV Diapo William Letsoalo Fedex Express Lucas Dennis Jabulani Ndaba Sibanyoni RAM Lerize Rautenbach DSV Noel Siphosami Barbosa Dawn Wing Kabelo Malema RTT Thomas Sihlango Generic Management NQF 4 Globeflight Refiloe Mojaki

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National Diploma Occupationally Directed Education, Training and Development Practices NQF 5 - Training Provider: Institute for People Development

SAEPA Top Achiever: Chantal Groep, DSV

Digistics Anthia Laros Metro Minds Yolandi Dercksen Metro Minds Caroline Gildenhuys Metro Minds Illona Viljoen Metro Minds Jeanine Wills Alto Training Martine Maraschin Bytes People Solutions Nicole Petersen Garry Marshall Imperial Logistics Sheetal Kanjee Imperial Logistics Chris Engelbrecht In addition SAEPA would like to MC Vaughan Zoutendyk, Commercial Manager, acknowledge the following: Commerce Edge • The Skills Development task team - Allison Singleton (Globeflight), Karen Reid (Dawn Wing) ND OD ETD NQF 5 and Natiesha Karim (RAM) and support team - Kabelo Malema (Dawn Wing); Victor Sibanyoni (RAM); Percy Setje (RAM), Johannes Molisenyane Bachelor of Commerce – Management with (Globeflight); Lucky Maduwa (RAM), Ann Merven Supply Chain Management Specialisation NQF 7 (Alto Training), Nomvula Tshabalala (Alto Training) - Training Provider: The da Vinci Institute and Sifizo Zwane (Alto Training) • Vaughn Zoutendyk from Commerce Edge who SAEPA Top Achiever: Jason Potgieter, Seabourne Express acted as Master of Ceremonies

DCB Logistics Natasha Claassen Dawn Wing Veshti Lazarus Dawn Wing Donavan Anthony Lazarus Dawn Wing Gregory John Luksich Dawn Wing Nontuthuko Jabulile Nkosi TNT Express Malesela Ramasobane UPS Michael Rossouw RAM Pieter Johannes Christiaan Theunissen Micor Ursula Elizabeth Kruger B Com NQF 7

Year-end edition 2017 • 6 • News Delivery David on Security By David Alexander, General Manager: AVSEC Professional Aviation Services National Aviation Security Seminar was privileged to participate in the South African Civil Aviation The subject of cyber security left delegates with concerns around Authority (SACAA) 2nd National Aviation Security Seminar, at the the status of their organisation’s cyber security measures and how IMarine Parade Garden Court in . The distinguished guests these can be improved. There is no doubt that this demands more Providing comprehensive solutions for the included Aiden Yeo, Assistant Director (Security Policy) of the focus from risk management specialists, especially following the Aviation, Logistics and Courier Industries. Singapore Ministry of Transport and Justus Nyunja, Regional officer of revelation that a US Homeland Security Team was able to hack into a the International Civil Aviation Organisation. There was representation parked Boeing 757 in a security test. from the Airports Company of (ACSA),ground handling Naturally, the question of Dangerous Goods was once again in the Aviation and Cargo Security Consulting companies and airlines including , , SAA and . spotlight. I took part in a lively panel discussion of industry experts The program covered a wide variety of topics vital to maintaining discussing the challenges and risks dangers occasioned by mis- security in our industry, including declared and undeclared dangerous goods. Screening Services • A report on the status of various regulatory matters involving our The SACAA has shown itself willing to engage with stakeholders region and ICAO in our industry and events such as this allow us to interact with the • Risks to cargo in transit by road authorities on an informal basis, get to understand each other’s AVSEC and Dangerous Goods Training • Security at OR Tambo International Airport positions and learn more about critical matters that affect aviation Customised Training Solutions • Procedures for security vetting personnel security and safety. There were presentations on lithium ion batteries, cyber security, SACAA has very kindly published some of the key presentations security audits and risk assessment for the transport of dangerous which can be found here: Logistics Management goods. National Aviation Security Seminar presentations

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Year-end edition 2017 • 7 • News Delivery by The Mystery Courier DANGEROUS GOODS IN THE UK? NOT ALL ROSY Oh well, at least the thought was there. e hear people moaning about waiting in Oh for a P. O.D. Instead of a card. for express parcels here in South Africa 80 miles south, a Wolverhampton Wbut is it better overseas? UK newspapers customer opened a parcel he thought frequently feature an almost daily courier-bashing contained his new £2,400 gaming article. Yet given that the market there is worth £ 10 laptop to find it replaced with a £20 billion and there are an estimated 1.7 – 1.9 billion deep-clean mop. Notquite a fair parcels delivered annually, statistically there have exchange. The 24-year-believes a bogus to be some hitches. delivery driver may have switched Having said that, spare a thought for Mike parcels. The box was “suspiciously light”, Williams from Manchester who was “partially unbranded and contained no invoice disembowelled” by his next-door neighbour in a savage drunken knife nor documentation. The address label had been tampered with. “I think attack caused by a row over a parcel delivery. it had been peeled off the correct box, along with the tracking label, and The former heavyweight boxer received a card from Royal Mail telling placed onto the phoney box that I received.” him his parcel had been left with his next door neighbour. When he went Rather begs the question why the bogus delivery driver bothered to to collect it - a vitamin sample he had ordered online -the neighbour drop anything off at all, especially as he was captured on CCTV. claimed he knew nothing about it. That was until his girlfriend pointed Nonetheless, the deluge continues. B2C is now the largest UK out the parcel, which had been opened. Mr Williams gave the couple segment, thanks to Internet retail, at about 42%. Click-and-collect is an earful. expected to account for 35% of fulfilment in 2018 and volumes are Did you know? • There are over 11,700 companies competing in Six hours later, the neighbour went to Mr Williams’s house armed with estimated to grow 10% per annum for at least the next five years. Let’s the UK parcels market a baseball bat and a knife which he used to stab the parcel owner. hope at least the disembowelling rate declines. • They employ around 250,000 people Snippets • The majority specialise by service or geographic area S A Airlink and are seeking Competition Commission approval to merge, though they will continue to operate as two separate brands. • 90% employ fewer than 5 people • Only 35 companies employ more than 100 people

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Year-end edition 2017 • 8 • News Delivery AARTO under fire The ill-regarded Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Through the (AARTO) Bill continues to attract criticism from informed parties. long-distance lens he Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse Infringement Authority (RTIA) whose funding (OUTA) has submitted comments and comes mainly from traffic fines. There will no The industrial age of Trequested to make oral submissions to the longer be the right to be heard in court. Instead a energy and transportation Select Committee on Economic and Business supplicant will have to pay a fee to have the case will be over by 2030. Development, for consideration by the National heard by an RTIA tribunal and do so within 30 Maybe before. Council of Provinces before the amended bill is days.”To appeal any infringement you will have to approved for the president to sign. Rudi Heyneke, pay the organisation which wrote the very law you That’s the view of Tony Seba, author and who holds OUTA’s transport portfolio contends that are appealing and which then decides if the law University Economist. His books and articles if the bill is signed as it stands it will be challenged they have written must be upheld or not.” on disruptions are challenging both for Subscribe: in the Constitutional Court. That would leave Another disturbing complication is that demerit individuals and businesses such as ours. leaving the country devoid of efficient legislation points will be applied not to the driver but against (https://tonyseba.com/portfolio-item/ It’s FREE promoting road safety, which OUTA believes should the person to whom a vehicle is registered. clean-energy-transportation-market-and- be the guiding principle. The impact of the amended bill will be severe investment-opportunities/) An industry voice, Gavin Kelly, the Road Freight on businesses which rely on road transport, such It may look a long way off but the disruption Association’s technical and operational manager, as our own express parcel industry. In addition to is already gathering momentum. Volvo will concurs. In Freight & Trading Weekly, (FTW), Gavin’s disruption, there is the cost of appealing to the make only electric and hybrid vehicles after quoted concern is that the courts will be removed tribunal, at a fee which has not yet been disclosed. 2019. Among others, the governments of the from the AARTO process. It will be compulsory There is talk of the amended bill coming into UK, France and Germany have committed to to make representations to the Road Traffic effect in the first quarter of 2018. Watch this space! Email your Name & Surname banning the sale of diesel and petrol vehicles during the next 20 years. The onslaught against to [email protected] with The Big Picture diesel continues in the UK and significant new Yes, I would like to subscribe government investment is being pledged for to SAEPA News Delivery infrastructure to accommodate replacement in the subject line electric vehicles. That’s overseas. What about South Africa? These developments - and the imminent The largest year-on-year increase in demand acceptance of self-driving vehicles - should for air cargo came from Africa during October, give members something to think about in with volumes rising over 30% against a capacity their strategic planning. Like what happens increase of 9.2%, according to IATA to express parcel delivery fleets when there’s load shedding?

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