Logistics Without Borders
Aurora Inter-Trade provides cross-continental service and is expanding geographic capabilities by the day.See how we can support all your international shipping needs.
Road Freight
Through our reliable and trusted haulers, we offer Cross border road freight services to our neighboring African countries.
Consignments are managed by dedicated staff, taking ownership of and ensuring the smooth transportation of goods and keeping the client fully informed at all times.
Air Freight
Our partnership with dynamic leading global airline carriers servicing South Africa, has enabled us to offer our clients competitive rates and service.
Our team is fully trained to assist each and every client with any complex shipment as per their individual needs, always ensuring the safety of the goods at all times for both import and export shipments.
• Direct Shipments.
• Consolidated Shipments.
• Courier shipments are handled through our selected courier companies offering clients the service best suited to their needs locally and internationally.
Sea Freight
We offer a full range of sea freight services, to and from South Africa.
Our hands on team will always ensure clients are notified of their shipment status not only whilst in transit, but till shipment is delivered to the door.
• Full Container Load (FCL)
• Less Container Load (LCL)
• Break Bulk service.
Custom Clearance
As a SARS accredited Clearing agent, we make use of the SARS EDI system, ensuring import shipments are customs cleared prior to the shipment arrival in South Africa.
This system is highly efficient, enabling us to resolve any queries raised by SARS within the free period granted by the carriers and minimizing additional costs to the importer.
• EDI release.
• Personalised on site supervision of Customs examinations.
• Import and export customs clearing.
Beef Exports
The modern market leans towards chilled and frozen. In both Cases, the meat is generally shipped in vacuum packaging. Vacuum packaging for chilled meat retains its moisture and continues to mature and tenderize in transit thanks to the action of the natural enzymes. Therefore, Exported Meat arrived in an even better condition than when it left South Africa. This saves the end – user time and costs involved in aging meat before re-sale.
Managing the supply chain for temperature-controlled meat exports from Abbittors is one of the core businesses of Aurora Inter-Trade.
Cold Chain
The series around shipping frozen food freight, we will cover the ins and outs and best practices one must consider when shipping frozen food in order to stay compliant with the Department Food Safety. We will cover the temperature best practices from origination to destination, sanitary provisions, and traceability of food and technology around traceability. When it comes to frozen food, this is often referred to as the Cold Chain.
Reefer Containers
Temperatures for cold supply chain:
- The required temperature is the responsibility of the exporter depending on the type of frozen food. However, the customer may have temperature specifications as part of their purchase order/agreement.
- Shipping Frozen Food General: All frozen food must be held at an air temperature of 0 degrees F; the internal product temperature should not exceed 10 degrees F.
- Vehicles should be pre-cooled to an air temperature of 20 degrees F, or lower before loading. Frozen food shipments will not be accepted for transportation when the internal product temperature exceeds 0 degrees.
- The most common temperature standards are “banana” (13 degrees C), “Chill” (2 degrees C) and “Frozen” (-18 degrees C), and “Deep Frozen” (-29 degrees C). Staying within these temperatures is vital to the integrity of a shipment along the cold supply chain and for perishables, it enables optimal shelf life. Any divergence can result in irrevocable and expensive damage (liability section).