Powering trade across Africa with trusted, end-to-end logistics solutions
DSV Africa services offers comprehensive logistics solutions tailored for the diverse needs of businesses operating across Sub-Saharan Africa. With 21 years of experience and a robust network spanning key regions, DSV ensures your cargo moves efficiently and reliably, no matter the destination.
DSV Africa Service (DAS) is playing an increasingly large role in sub-Saharan Africa to ensure the logistics capability. Apart from helping build transport capability and logistics infrastructure, DAS is also contributing to trends already evident across the continent, such as bridging the gap between urban and rural communities, accelerating the digitisation of logistics and growing B2B logistics.
Our single point of contact, linked to more than 90 global offices working off one system and built over 21 years of successfully moving cargo around the continent, means we can deliver end-to-end solutions throughout Africa.
Information moves seamlessly throughout the supply chain, and myDSV, PO Management and our tracking loggers, who provide "live" information, are significant differentiators for DSV in the African market. All of this mean customers can retrieve information anywhere in the world at any time. Exception management is key for customers' supply chains when it comes to the planning
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Discover how DSV can streamline your supply chain into Africa
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Kris van Heerden
General Manager, Over-border, Projects & DAS, Air & Sea
083 645 9905
kris.vanheerden@dsv.com
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Deshini Bowler
Business Development Manager, Air & Sea
067 414 6698
deshini.bowler@dsv.com
While regular point-to-point logistics are serviced by the products of Road, Air & Sea and Contract Logistics, today's ever developing business requires an additional logistics option, DSV's Africa Service.
The complexity of tri-angular business logistics is serviced by DSV Africa Service, a division of DSV Air & Sea. Cross Trade functions as a control tower, dedicated to the management of cross-trade business which is facilitated by the DSV network.
DSV works in key Africa's economic drivers, including Oil and Gas, Mining, Power and Energy, High-value chain, Healthcare, Retail and Automotive.
The foundation for our success begins with clearly understanding the client's requirements, and making sure our processes - which are IOP/SOP - work to deliver agreed KPIs.
Key services include freight forwarding (Ocean, Road, Air and Rail), customs brokerage (compliance, execution, management), project management, cross-dock and material handling.
Efficient Africa freight forwarding
| Global Supply → | DSV Control Tower → | Customer |
| • Various global origins • Country specific export requirements • Multiple suppliers per origin country |
• Single point of contact • Dedicated operational team • Origin and supplier management • Carrier management |
• Customer specific requirements • Destination specific requirements |
| System and visibility | ||
| Reporting and control | ||
| Quality, Safety, Health and Environment (QSHE) |
DAS's single point of contact for the SSA region provides both exporters and importers with significant advantages, which include:
- The ability to negotiate preferential freight rates
- Dedicated pricing desk for cargo in & out of SSA
- Dedicated freight forwarders in each country ensuring SOP's are implemented and maintained
- US Dollar based payments and remittances
- Daily updates of all cargo being moved across Africa
- A centralised transport desk
- Work closely with agent linked with CargoWise 1 (DSV's Global Operating System)
DAS tranships goods from six hubs around the continent - Mombasa in Kenya, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Beira and Nacale in Mocambique, Durban in South Africa and Walvis Bay in Namibia. Countries served from these ports include Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mocambique, Botswana and Namibia.
Africa logistics FAQs
What businesses need to know about moving cargo across the Continent
DSV Africa Services (DAS) is a specialised logistics offering designed to provide comprehensive end-to-end freight and supply chain solutions across Sub-Saharan Africa. It combines DSV's global network with regional expertise to handle all cross trade movements into Sub-Saharan Africa which is complex logistics, challenging customs, multimodal transport, and more, all under a single point of contact.
DSV Africa Services supports logistics throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, with operational hubs and trans-shipment ports in key locations including Mombasa (Kenya), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Beira/Nacala (Mozambique), Durban (South Africa) and Walvis Bay (Namibia). This network enables efficient connections across multiple African countries.
The service portfolio includes freight forwarding (air, sea, road), customs brokerage and compliance, cross-dock and material handling, and coordinated cross-trade control tower services to ensure smoother, more visible transport across borders.
DSV Africa Services acts a single point of contact across the region, helping exporters and importers negotiate preferential freight rates, manage freight pricing desks, integrate standard operating procedures, track shipments daily, and align transport under one central system. This seamless coordination reduces complexity in cross-border logistics.
DSV supports a wide range of sectors including Oil & Gas, Mining, Power & Energy, Healthcare, Retail, Automotive, and high-value manufacturing. These industries often require specialised handling, compliance expertise, and reliable freight movement across multiple African markets.
DSV leverages digital tools like myDSV, PO management systems and cargo tracking loggers to give customers real-time information and visibility throughout the supply chain. This digital transparency helps optimise planning and exception management when moving goods across Africa.
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