Safcor Panalpina's agency agreement with the Panalpina Group goes back more than 30 years and enables us to offer major competitive advantages in the provision of door-to-door services. The Group is a leading provider for ocean freight and also operates dedicated airfreight charters on the South Africa route, delivering a unique product differentiation and enhancing service levels to clients.
In 1996, Panalpina introduced the Rainbow service from Luxembourg to Johannesburg. This integrated all-cargo airline/forwarder concept was a first to the South African market. As a dedicated service, it allows our clients to take advantage of the full charter concept, linked with the services of a first class carrier with the best reputation in the market. The service offers six scheduled B747 flights per week.Panalpina has operated full charters to Africa for more than 20 years, providing wide body freighter capacity.
Safcor Panalpina offers extensive international airfreight forwarding services, utilising Panalpina freighters and the world's major commercial airlines, all-cargo carriers and charters.By providing a variety of international service levels, our clients can ship air cargo to any destination in the world simply by selecting an airfreight product that best meets criteria for transit times and choice of pickup and delivery options. We offer innovative, flexible and cost effective solutions on six continents through 480 offices. The main advantage of our Airfreightproduct offering is that we are able to secure capacity wherever and whenever it is needed.
For over 95 years, our teams have helped clients move cargo to and from market quickly and economically wherever that market may be.Today, clients can ship cargo of virtually any weight to any destination in the world.Panalpina's unique Central Procurement and Capacity Management resource division gives us unrestricted access to virtually unlimited capacity, with best-in-class alliances and shippartners, thus allowing Safcor Panalpina to offer a differentiated combination of seafreigh forwarding services.