Sturrock Shipping

About Sturrock Shipping

Sturrock Shipping was founded in 1969 as both a ships agency and clearing & forwarding company in order to provide a full supply-chain service for the handling of sea transport and the import and export of goods into and out of South Africa.

In 1994, after the opening up of South Africa, the company began a methodical expansion into Sub-Saharan Africa. In a little over 10 years Sturrock Shipping would become one of the largest, privately owned shipping and logistics companies in South and East Africa.

Expansion began with the English speaking countries of Kenya and Tanzania, followed by Mozambique, Madagascar and even North Sudan.

The company concluded an empowerment deal with the Calulo Group in 2007, in terms of which Calulo Services acquired a major shareholding in the company along with the Sturrock family.

In 2010 the company acquired the businesses of two successful ships agencies based in Australia, Hetherington Kingsbury and the McArthur Shipping & Agency Co, thereby firmly establishing Sturrock Shipping outside of Africa. Further expansion took place into West Africa with presence in both Angola and Ghana today.

In 2012 Sturrock Shipping announced its merger with Grindrod Ships Agencies that encompasses several distinguished brands allowing the group to offer services across the dry and wet bulk as well as liner agency spectrum. This new agency grouping has diversity in a wide spectrum of marine services on offer, geographic spread as well as many decades of experience providing shipowners and operators a first class service.

Our base of Principal's and clients extends across the world many of whom have been served by the group for 30 years and in some cases considerably more. We pride ourselves on having been able to offer longevity of service as well as ongoing reliability.

Sturrock Shipping has had an ISO 9001 quality management system in place since 1996 and currently operates on a Level 3 empowerment scorecard.

This merger follows on from the successful acquisition by Sturrock Shipping and Calulo of a 15% shareholding in Röhlig-Grindrod (Pty) Ltd.



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