The proven value and benefits derived from the EIT Freight Village in Estcourt and its comprehensive value-add services provide an ideal template upon which to model future EIT Freight Villages. Naturally, every EIT Freight Village will be designed to maximise the value gained from its strategic geographical position, with significant and comprehensive infrastructure and services aimed at maximising efficiency, productivity and profitability.

In all instances, EIT Freight Villages will be carefully constructed to provide an ideal juncture and connection point for various modes of freight, creating new logistical pathways and supporting the adoption of a multi-modal approach that will add significant value to all role players. By optimising the available logistics avenues, both new and pre-existing, the network of EIT Freight Villages will facilitate increased efficiency and turnaround times, with reduced costs across the board.

EIT Group has identified various key strategic locations and opportunities for logistical improvement across South Africa, and plans to expand its network of EIT Freight Villages as soon as possible, providing more cost-effective services to logistics providers across sub-Saharan Africa.

In creating this network, EIT Group is and will continue to be guided by its core goal: to constructively disrupt sub-Saharan Africa’s current logistics model, bringing South Africa into a new age of increased logistical efficiency and boosted productivity to the benefit of all logistics stakeholders.