Industrial Commodities

Powering efficiency from start to finish.

Logistics in Africa’s industrial commodities sector face significant challenges, including infrastructure gaps, trade barriers, and geopolitical tensions. Many regions are challenged with inadequate road and rail networks, complicating the movement of goods amid fluctuating global commodity prices. Unitrans is committed to overcoming these hurdles with comprehensive end-to-end supply chain solutions.

By embracing digital technologies, we streamline processes and enhance efficiency, offering real-time tracking and proactive problem-solving. Our dedication to meet our customers’ needs enables them to concentrate on their core operations, free from the complexities of logistics management.

We’ve proudly been serving the following industries for more than 60 years.

Lubricants

Chemicals

Paints

Glassware

Hazardous
Cargo

Construction
materials

Animal feed
pesticides

Packaging
materials

Textiles

Automotive
products

Our End-to-End Industrial Commodities Supply Chain Solutions include:

Risk & Safety Management

Strategic & Tactical Planning

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

Supply Chain Optimisation

End-to-End
Solutions

Freight Forwarding & Clearing

Distribution

Warehousing

Managed Logistics Services

World-class technology that gets it done on time. And on target.

Through our Centre of Excellence, our customers have access to advanced technology and software, allowing them to benefit from solutions without developing it in-house.

We offer robust tracking and reporting tools that enable our customers to monitor logistics operations in real-time, helping in decision-making and process optimisation.

We pride ourselves in our ability to bring together infrastructure, supply chain networks, technology and innovation in a way that delivers solutions that add value to our clients. Our collective skill set of analytical problem-solving capabilities are aligned with a keen sense of reviewing operations and identifying areas requiring increased efficiencies to achieve outstanding results.

Our promise to your business.

With a legacy as one of Southern Africa’s most trusted logistics brands, we bring experience and stability to your operations.

Our award-winning safety standards and highly trained drivers significantly reduce risk, especially in regulated industries.

Leveraging our extensive expertise, we deliver large-scale projects quickly and efficiently across multiple sectors.

Our Centre of Excellence utilises technologies, big data, and business intelligence to continuously improve and mitigate risks in your operations.

By working closely with you, we gain a deep understanding of your needs, enabling us to craft more effective supply chain solutions.

Operating in 10 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, we extend your market reach to a broader, more diverse customer base.

We simplify your supply chain by integrating all functions, ensuring smoother coordination, better communication, and fewer errors.

Accreditations & Certifications

Case Studies & News

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Risk and Safety
Management

Through our advanced protocols, real-time monitoring, and unwavering compliance, we mitigate risk across the supply chain, ensuring every operation runs securely and without disruption.

Strategic &
Tactical Planning

We believe data shouldn’t just deliver insights but should enable foresight that empowers our customers to make value-driven decisions that last. From network balancing and load building to planning, optimisation, and scenario analysis, we ensure data works harder – delivering results today and shaping success for tomorrow.

Data Analytics &
Business Intelligence

Our command centre approach provides customers with a real-time, bird’s-eye view of their supply chain. This holistic approach ensures smoother coordination, greater efficiency, and the ability to anticipate and address challenges before they impact performance.

Supply Chain
Optimisation

Unitrans specialises in optimising the entire supply chain for the industrial commodities sector, ensuring efficient, reliable, and streamlined operations throughout the value chain. By refining logistics, enhancing load efficiency, and minimising downtime, we help businesses improve productivity and reduce costs.

End-to-End Solutions

Unitrans provides fully integrated end-to-end solutions for the industrial commodities sector, managing everything from sourcing to final delivery. Our customised approach ensures each stage is optimised to meet the specific demands of your operations, improving efficiency, reducing costs, and boosting overall performance. By managing the entire supply chain, we enable our industrial commodities partners to focus on core production, while we ensure smooth logistics and timely deliveries across the board.

Freight Forwarding
and Clearing

With nearly 20 years of expertise, Unitrans collaborates with leading agents to manage global cargo movement, providing end-to-end visibility and timely clearance. Our business has a global footprint with extensive coverage across Africa, Europe, and Asia. Our AEO Level 2 certification ensures dependable service and prompt cargo clearance.

Distribution

Unitrans has extensive experience in designing, implementing and managing transport solutions for a variety of products across different industries. Our efficient, reliable and customised road freight transport solutions create the necessary links between producers or manufacturers, retailers and end consumers. Offering both primary and secondary distribution across all regions, we connect your products with their end destination.

Our ‘command centre’ approach to the management of fleet, including driver behaviour monitoring, risk and safety management, route optimisation and order tracking, ensures that efficiency is maintained and costs controlled and or even reduced wherever possible.

Warehousing

Unitrans delivers customised warehousing solutions across a variety of industries. We analyse existing warehouse operations and re-engineer activities to maximise efficiency, allowing us to implement sustainable, cost-effective solutions.

Our multi-party options are tailored to meet the unique safety, agility, and cost-effectiveness requirements of specific industries, ensuring optimal performance and adaptability across sectors.

Managed Logistics Services

Unitrans’ managed logistics services utilise technology and smart supply chain partnerships to deliver value for our customers. Our scalable solutions adapt to shifts in demand, offering flexible and efficient logistics management with access to a broad range of options.

Key benefits include:

  • Reduced operating costs through economies of scale and efficient resource allocation.
  • Scalability and flexibility, allowing operations to expand or contract based on demand, supported by our extensive partner network for shipping, warehousing, and distribution.
  • Expert guidance, leveraging our deep experience in logistics and supply chain management to improve efficiency and drive cost savings.