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For South African freight companies

Logistics marketing for South African freight companies

Ihya runs marketing and lead generation for freight forwarders, clearing agents and logistics companies in South Africa. A dedicated team handles outbound, search, WhatsApp and AI agents, aimed at the importers and exporters on your lanes through Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Retainers start at $2,500 per month.
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Why growth stalls for South African forwarders

Strong relationships built the business. They rarely scale it.

01

Referrals that stopped growing

Most forwarders built their book on relationships. When a few key accounts move, there is no engine to replace them.

02

Shippers comparing on rate alone

When every clearing and forwarding agent sounds the same, importers shop on price. Clear positioning on lanes and sectors changes that.

03

Slow follow up

Quote requests that wait hours lose to the competitor who answered first, on WhatsApp or the phone.

What your dedicated team runs

Outbound, search and fast response, aimed at the shippers on your lanes.

Outbound to importers and exporters

Reach the shippers on your lanes.

  • Target lists by sector, lane and region
  • Email and LinkedIn campaigns written for local buyers
  • Meetings booked into your sales team's diaries
  • Every touch tracked in your CRM

Search and websites

Get found when shippers search.

  • SEO for Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg searches
  • Service pages for clearing, forwarding and warehousing
  • Google Business Profile set up and managed
  • A website that turns visits into quote requests

WhatsApp and AI agents

Reply first, every time.

  • WhatsApp quote intake and shipment updates
  • AI agents that qualify and chase enquiries
  • Linked to CargoWise, your TMS or CRM
  • Human handover with full context

A team priced for your market

Senior talent without senior overhead.

  • Dedicated team, one point of contact
  • Monthly billing, cancel with notice
  • UK trained specialists
  • Live dashboards from month one

How it works

From first call to live work in about two weeks, not months.

1

Quick call

Fifteen minutes on your lanes, your customers and where growth is stuck.

2

The plan

The accounts, channels and lanes we will focus on, and what each should bring.

3

We get to work

Your team goes live within about two weeks, with every enquiry tracked.

One team. A price that makes sense.

Simple monthly plans. Zero overhead. Every plan starts with a call.

Launch

$2,500/mo
Monthly billing, cancel with notice

For teams testing one channel. One focus: marketing, development or AI, with a dedicated point of contact and monthly reporting.

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Growth

Most picked
$4,000/mo
Monthly billing, cancel with notice

The full engine for serious teams. Marketing and development together, a dedicated team, one AI agent set up and live, reviews every two weeks.

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Scale

Custom
Full capacity, every channel

Marketing, development and AI agents with priority delivery, quarterly strategy sessions and multiple active projects.

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Real work, in your world

We have already built and grown for freight tech and logistics.

What we did: built their website, customer portals and the systems behind them, and run the creatives that bring in leads.

Ihya built our website, our portals and the systems behind them, and they run the creatives that bring our leads in. It feels like having our own marketing and tech team, one that already understands freight.
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Imran Kabeer
Head of Marketing, SFL Tech

What we did: lead generation for their warehousing services, with every enquiry linked straight into their CRM.

We needed more enquiries for our warehousing services. Ihya set up the lead generation and connected it to our CRM, so every lead is captured and followed up. For the first time we can actually see our pipeline.
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Fawaaz Jishty
General Manager, Tech Cargo Hub

Straight answers

The questions we hear most from teams like yours.

Yes. South Africa is one of our priority markets after the Gulf. We work with forwarders, clearing agents, 3PLs and logistics tech companies.
All of it, with most campaigns focused on the Durban, Cape Town and Gauteng freight hubs where importers and exporters concentrate.
Yes. Many South African forwarders serve neighbouring countries and wider African lanes, and we build campaigns around the lanes you actually sell.
Retainers start at $2,500 per month. Most South African teams start with outbound plus a website and WhatsApp upgrade, then add search once enquiries are flowing.
Outbound usually produces first conversations within four to six weeks. Search compounds over three to six months.

Read before you call

Free guides from the same team, no email gate.

Lead generation

How freight forwarders actually get leads

The lead channels that actually work for freight forwarders, ranked by speed to results: referral activation, outbound, paid search, SEO and partnerships, plus the follow up discipline that decides who wins the booking.

Read the guide →Outbound

Cold email for freight forwarders: templates that get replies

Cold email templates for freight forwarders, with the rules that get replies from shippers: narrow lists, one lane per campaign, short emails and a small ask.

Read the guide →Websites

The logistics website checklist: 21 things that win enquiries

The 21 point checklist for logistics and freight forwarder websites that convert: trust signals, quote forms, response time promises, lane and service pages, speed and schema.

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Your lanes are ready to grow. Is your marketing?

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