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engine repair and maintenance facility. This is headed ƒ Supervisory Skills
up by a team of highly trained Italian and South African ƒ Manage Logistics Operations
technicians and MSC is also involved in providing ƒ Communication Skills
training and upskilling in this field. ƒ Grievance & Discipline
ƒ Analysing & Solving Problems
Diversification ƒ Conflict Management
MSC has successfully diversified into the business of ƒ Health & Safety
container depots, mineral packing sites and warehouses, ƒ Customer Service
most of which have custom bond facilities. These are ƒ Manage Personal Finance
situated in Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Coega, ƒ Telephone Etiquette
East London, Rosslyn and Pretoria. Rosslyn boasts its ƒ CSI Courses
own rail siding as facilitating clients’ access to their ƒ Several online courses relating to business
manufacturing plants, is a particularly critical issue for operations and compliance
the motor industry. ƒ Learnership: International Trade
ƒ Learnership: Freight Forwarding & Customs
In addition, MSC has successfully diversified into Compliance
the business of providing landside trucking services ƒ Learnership: Shipping
across South Africa with a dedicated owned fleet of
trucks and trailers and a pool of owner/driver trucking Recent Awards
service providers. ƒ FNB / KZN Top Business Portfolio Awards 2009
Social Responsibility (Transport Category) as well as being nominated in
the top three companies in 2010, 2011.
From a socio-economic perspective MSC mainly contri- ƒ PMR Golden Arrow Award – Best Shipping
butes to charities such as the Domino Foundation Company in Kwa-Zulu-Natal (1999, 2010).
focusing on early childhood development, Reach ƒ PMR Diamond Award 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
for a Dream and the upliftment of the community of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020–Outstanding 1st overall.
Umzimkhulu, which is one of the poorest in the country ƒ Best Shipping in KZN (1999, 2011)
with a high HIV rate. MSC funds various schools and ƒ Winner of The KZN Top Business Awards in
provides access to bursaries to its employees’ children. Transport, Storage and Communication – 2016.
A training academy has been established to upskill, ƒ Finalist in The KZN Top Business Awards 2013,
train (at MSC’s own expense) and provide employment 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
to black South Africans in the fields of hospitality ƒ Winner of the prestigious KZN Exporter of The Year
and also in the field of maintenance and repair in the and Service Provider Category 2013, 2014, 2015,
shipping industry. This is a ten-year project with an 2016, 2017, 2019 – Sustainability Exporter of the year.
investment of R102 000 000. ƒ Finalist in the prestigious KZN Exporter of The Year
and Service Provider Category 2018
Training Programmes/Skills Development ƒ Top 500 – South Africa’s best managed companies
MSC offers several training and learnership programmes Top 5 in the shipping sector 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018,
to employees across the organisation as well as to 2019, 2020
unemployed youth and people with disabilities: MSC attributes its success to the extremely close
ƒ International Trade relationships that they have built with clients; a strategy
ƒ Liner Trade they anticipate will move MSC into the number one
ƒ Basic Legal Principles position in the world in the future.

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