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MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING COMPANY
(MSC)

Captain Salvatore Sarno
www.msc.com

GROWTH THROUGH INNOVATION meet the requirements of clients and principals.
South African Investments
MSC has significant investments in the South African
property market, with instantly recognisable office
buildings worth R265,967,000 in Durban, Cape Town,
Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg and Pretoria. The Italian
Village in Umhlanga Ridge was built to accommodate
MSC’s overseas personnel and their families and
comprises seven houses. Built in 1996, this complex is
currently valued at R43 340,000.
Technical Expertise
MSC’s hugely successful technical division, which
was expanded in 1998, operates a world class, full
scale engine repair and maintenance facility, which
is headed up by a team of highly trained Italian and
South African technicians and has a staff complement
of over one hundred members.
Diversification
The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has an MSC has successfully diversified into the business
innovative, flexible and unique approach to shipping of container depots, most of which have custom
that has allowed the company to grow significantly bond facilities. These are situated in Durban,
over the last fifty years. Founded in 1970, MSC is now Cape Town, Johannesburg, Coega, East London and
the biggest user of the South African ports and by 2003 Rosslyn, Pretoria. Rosslyn boasts its own rail siding
was the second biggest container carrier in the world. as facilitating clients’ access to their manufacturing
plants, is a particularly critical issue for the motoring
MSC has 493 offices in 155 countries with a team of industry.
70 000, dedicated fleet of 560 container vessels with
an intake capacity of circa 3.1 million TEU. We have a Social Responsibility
global sailing schedule covering 200 trade routes and From a socio economic perspective MSC mainly
calling at more than 500 ports. contributes to charities such as the Domino
Foundation, Reach for a Dream and the upliftment
MSC provides global coverage, linking South Africa
directly with Europe, UK, USA, Asia, Middle East, India, of the community of Umzimkhulu, which is one of the
Pakistan, Far East, Australia, New Zealand as well as poorest and highest HIV rates in the country. MSC
the key ports of Africa’s West Coast, East Coast and funds various schools and provides access to bursaries
the Indian Ocean Islands, South America, Madagascar to its employees’ children.
and Mozambique. MSC’s dramatic growth over the It has also established a training academy to upskill,
past decade can be attributed to two things: the train (at its own expense) and provide employment
quality management system that aims at consistently to black South Africans in the fields of hospitality and
improving upon service levels within the shipping maintenance and repair. This is a ten year project with
community and MSC’s willingness to initiate change to an investment of R102,000,000.

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