Grindrod Rail is known for ensuring a seamless rail logistics solution for our freight customers. We contribute to their enhanced results through coordinating logistics, managing railway operations and providing cost efficient rolling stock leasing solutions.
Find out about our logistics networkWe offer individual models for different markets, but all based on providing the services that our clients and partners want; – from whole concession management by the Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway Company in Zimbabwe to the operation of heavy haul trains in Sierra Leone. Infrastructure management, rolling stock procurement, rolling stock maintenance, train consist optimisation, training, safety management and train control systems are all core competencies.
Explore our trade corridorsRailco Limited through subsidiaries GPR Leasing Africa and ARSS provide innovative, cost-effective leasing solutions to the African rail and mining sectors. We offer the benefits of our highly competitive debt funding and a fleet of modern, purpose-built locomotives and wagons to release our clients’ cash-flow and balance sheet capacity for their core businesses.
Grindrod Rail Consultancy Services (GRCS) has a dedicated team of brokers with decades of combined experience in the haulage of both mine inputs and mine exports into and out of the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelt.
We simplify things with one price, one invoice and one point of contact for the complete rail logistics movement of cargo. Our expertise is broad, covering copper (metal and concentrates), cobalt concentrates, chrome ore, coal, limestone, clinker, sulphur powder, sulphuric acid, mining chemicals, diesel and petrol, fertiliser, construction materials and general containers.
Mines rely on our experienced rail managers and engineers to provide a unique combination of independent advice and consultancy on a wide range of logistics solutions, particularly where a combination of road, rail, port handling and seafreight services is required.
Solid experience in the design, manufacture, maintenance, sourcing and financing of specific fit-for-purpose rolling stock across the Cape gauge network puts GRCS in a league of its own. Our innovatively designed, lightweight flatbed container wagon is a solution for many freight requirements in southern Africa where axle weight limits restrict payloads.