Japhraim believes in the equitable creation of wealth to all our stakeholders: employees, investors, and shareholders. This wealth is created through innovative and prompt delivery of high-quality services to our yearning customers. At transportation level, we provide safe, secured neat and transport services at affordable rates, provide neat and secure intra-city, provide comfortable transport services within our locality, we provide services in the area of petroleum product haulage (PMS, AGO, DPK and LFPO), we serve the marine industry by providing cargo transport services at the port to bonded terminals and locations within the country, and equally serve, the commodities market by providing affordable and secured haulage services for movement and delivery of commodities like cement, rice flour, etc.
FLEET MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Our fleet management services involve management of trucks placed under our management for a fee. Under this scheme, people who wish to invest in the haulage industry but do not have the time to supervise, the business, acquires the truck under their name and give it to us to manage at agreed percentage per month of income generated.
THE HAULAGE INDUSTRY
Haulage means transporting of goods (products) from one place to another. This distance (mileage) between the places of origin to the final destination is what the haulage business charge for. The Haulage business is therefore, simply the business of making goods available when and where they are needed.
Haulage starts from the point of extraction or loading to the point of delivery of the goods (products) for the satisfaction of the final consumers.
Goods that are usually carried include:
- Petroleum products such as Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK), Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), Low Pour Fuel Oil (LPFO) and other Petrochemicals.
- Building materials such as sand, clay, granite, cement, iron rods etc.
- Agricultural products
- Containers/cargoes from the ports
- Heavy duty equipments like generators, transformers, pole etc
- Solid minerals and other finished products
- Commodities like sugar, flour, salt etc.
Haulage distance charged can be within the state of operation e.g. Port Harcourt and is called (Local) or outside the state called (Interstate) or within a geographical region.
THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF HAULAGE
Haulage involves the movement of goods by both rail and road, but since the collapse of rail system in Nigeria, road haulage has taken the lead. The country has enough population and a good network of roads linking the 36 states and Abuja, though not in very good condition.
The transport sector is an important component of the economy impacting on the development and the welfare of the huge population of about 140 million. When transport systems are efficient, they provide economic and social opportunities and benefits that result in positive multipliers effects such as better accessibility to markets and additional investments. Transport also carries an important social and environmental load, which cannot be neglected. Haulage has the following importance in the society.
- Moving of material from the natural stage.
- Conveying raw materials to the factory and helping the producers to convey their goods to wholesaler (distributors).
- Helping the producers to reduce the content of the warehouse. An efficient transport system offering cost, time and reliability advantages permits goods to be transported over longer distances. This facilitates mass production through economies of scale because larger markets can be accessed. Thus, the more efficient transportation becomes, the larger the markets that can be serviced and the larger the scale of production.
- Helping the wholesalers (distributors) to get their purchased goods to their stores. Improvement in the efficiency with which firms have access to raw materials and parts as well as to their respective customers. Thus, transportation expands opportunities to acquires and sell a variety of commodities necessary for individual and manufacturing systems.
- Increased competition. When transport is efficient, the potential market for a given product (or service) increase, and so does competition. A wider array of goods and services becomes available to consumers through competition which tends to reduce costs and promote quality and innovation.
- Increase land value: Land which is adjacent or serviced by good transport services generally has greater value due to the utility it confers to many activities.
- Haulage also contributes to economic development through job creation and its derived economic activities. Accordingly a large number of direct (freighters, managers, shippers) and indirect (insurance, finance, packaging, handling travel agencies, transit operators) employment are associated with transport.Producers and consumers take economic decisions in products markets, cost, location prices which are based on transport services, their availability costs and capacity.
- In conclusion, haulage makes goods and services available where and when they are needed. It provides market accessibility by linking producers and consumers.
