ATLANTIC GUARDIAN (PTY) LTD Shipping & General Transport, Trusted Logistics, Warehousing & Freight Services in South Africa

Shipping & General Transport was built on the cornerstones of trustworthiness, perseverance and reliability. These are the values that transcends from our leadership to every staff in our employ.

Everything that is moved from one place to another needs the aid of landside logistics – but behind this simple truth one finds millions of stories. As a logistics company with a 38-year heritage and a fleet of over 100 heavy commercial vehicles on our road network daily, we believe we are a key contributor to our industries backbone of trade. We ensure that whatever needs to be delivered, gets delivered.

A shipment placed in our trust may include life-saving medicines, critical line stoppage components, perhaps a birthday present from a friend, or even hold a company’s entire existence in the form of a prototype. Not only do we deliver bulk commodities, machinery, consumer goods, parcels and packages.

We deliver containers. We deliver prosperity, we deliver health, we deliver growth, we deliver joy. Every day, we deliver. We are proud to be the preferred service provider to most multi-national as well as local, and niche smaller clearing and forwarding agents in South Africa. We look forward to being your service provider

Excellence in all we do

We strive to provide the highest quality services to our clients. We have a relentless passion for innovation and improvement. We resent complacency.

Respect for all

We seek and value diversity of perspective, experience, and background as the foundation of the enterprise. We treat all stakeholders with dignity and respect.

Safety first and always

We have an obligation to our clients, our shareholders, our associates, society and the public to operate safely. Nothing we do is worth compromising our lives or the lives of others.

Integrity in every act

We conduct our business with the highest ethical standards. Truth and honesty are key to the way in which we operate.

Our Mission And Purpose

We strive to deliver an impeccably cohesive transportation, warehousing, and logistics solution to our clients. We’ve defined our goals for the future and the role we intend playing in the industries that we serve, included in this was our vision and mission for our company. Our Vision: is to continue our growth as a private enterprise and to become the industry’s most turned to provider of landside logistics in South Africa. We aim to be their first port of call for exceptional, timeous, value-for-money service. Our Mission: is to provide unrivalled service in our industry. This is the pillar of our success at Shipping & General Transport Services. Service has always been and will always be, our priority.

We succeed when you succeed

We choose to be a prodigious, enduring, private enterprise that creates value for our clients. We treat our clients, shareholders, associates and suppliers with faithfulness, integrity and respect. We strongly believe that pursuing all of our goals is in our interest and in the interest of all our clients, our employees, and our planet as a whole. We add value to people’s interaction with us, whether with excellent services or products, by engaging our employees and nurturing their talents, or by the simple virtue of being a solid, accomplished long-term role player in the industries which we operate in. All the while, we are remain mindful by showing concern for our world and our local communities with our corporate responsibility programs.

A company with purpose

At Shipping & General we believe that sound, workable road transportation and warehousing solutions are only persuasively possible on the back of an all-inclusive infrastructure portfolio, both in fixed and movable assets. We are proud to be a favored service provider to most multi-national as well as a multitude of local, smaller niche clearing and forwarding agents in South Africa. We believe that our success stems largely from an age-old tradition where old-schooled service, enthusiasm, and the ability to unconditionally treat our clients as Kings & Queens of our world is instilled in the minds of every employee that walk through our doors. Stringent, regular staff and driver training coupled with the personal attention and interaction of our management team ensures that our clients are constantly on the receiving end of exceptional service delivery. We’re fanatical about long term, mutually rewarding and ultimately sustainable relationships with our clients.