South Harbour are fuel transporters / fuel wholesalers out of Cape Town, South Africa – in their tenth year of operation in 2011.

Range of operation is : Western, Northern, Eastern Cape.

Using ‘conventional road tankers’ South Harbour moves around 13 million litres (3.3 million gallons) of fuel monthly in 2011.

Despite the economic gloom since 2008, South Harbour has managed to maintain ‘100% on-time’ deliveries to customers like Sasol Oil, Engen Petroleum and others customers in the Cape.

As a result of the pain of 2008 / 2009 / 2010 South Harbour has strategically concentrated on improved designs of ‘multi-purpose trailers’ – long in its DNA - and believes these vehicles are both commercially viable, recession-proof, and of course are environmentally responsible.

The way to go.

After a 21-month long design and manufacturing phase, South Harbour took delivery of a prototype MPT (Multi-Purpose Trailer) from GRW Engineering, Worcester, RSA, 21 April 2011 and has started to road test this vehicle.

For a 11-minute video clip of MPT road tests click here.

We understand this is the world’s first known ADR-compliant vehicle of its kind. (Click on ‘Multi-Purpose Trailers’ on the tool bar above for more details.)

A positive equipment innovation for 2011 which stands to strengthen South Harbour’s hand as a tanker design and development company, and as a niche road tanker operator.