Majority shareholding in Jonen Freight Pty. Ltd.
Kempten, Johannesburg/Kempton Park; 17 February 2011. The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, is further expanding its intercontinental network with a joint venture in South Africa. The enterprise employs a staff of 133 and offers extensive logistics services in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
Jonen Freight Pty. Ltd. is a privately run logistics company that has been in the market for over 30 years. Dachser has a majority shareholding in the joint undertaking, and is thus reinforcing its activities in the Dachser Air & Sea Logistics business segment.
“For us and many of our globally operating customers, South Africa is an attractive market and important international transport hub,” says Thomas Reuter, managing director of Dachser Air & Sea Logistics. In addition to air and sea freight, the services portfolio includes customs clearance as well as warehousing and distribution.
Jonen is run in the second generation by the ethnic German Duve family. The joint venture will initially continue to operate within the Dachser group under its present name Jonen Freight Pty. Ltd. The five-man management board is made up of Jonen managers Detlev and Hartmut Duve as well as Dachser managers Thomas Reuter, Rüdiger Klug and Rolf Mertins.
Rüdiger Klug, EMEA regional manager at Dachser Air & Sea Logistics will act as chairman; Detlev Duve as vice chairman and managing director.
“By becoming part of and integrated into the Dachser organization we will in future be able to offer our customers far more than just regional competence – we will be giving them access to a globally integrated network,” says Detlev Duve.
In 2009, Dachser generated total revenue of EUR 3.2 billion. 17,500 staff working in 306 profit centres worldwide handled 41.8 million consignments weighing a total of 29.4 million tonnes.