About us
TrenStar is an international provider of integrated logistics and asset management solutions. The company offers products and services
to a multitude of customers that range from reusable packaging on the one end of the logistics spectrum, to receiving, dispatch and
cross-dock management in the middle and final receiving, electronic warehouse management, container collection and cleaning on the
other side. Throughout the supply chain TrenStar uses its proprietary Container Management (TrenStarCM) system to track and trace all
products, provide intelligence on the product performance and to manage the process according to set business rules.
Information technology
TrenStar boasts a large IT division with a full suite of developing capabilities. This division, using TrenStar’s flagship TrenStarCM system
as backbone, offers customers full visibility and control of their assets. Equipped with the TrenStarCM network, TrenStar collects, analyses
and presents intelligence on product movement, supplier performance, the costs that are tied to each phase of the supply chain and any
other parameter that a client would require. TrenStar reports on these parameters and will manage, or enable a client to manage, its
supply chain based on pre-set business rules.
TrenStar further uses its experience in managing its own, and customers’ mobile assets through barcodes, human readable labels and
radio frequency identification (RFID) to offer specific, customisable solutions. Services already on offer include management dashboards,
electronic and RFID-enabled fixed asset management (TrenStar FAM), electronic and automated advanced shipping notification (ASN) and
short shipment notification (SSN), mobile scanning and linking of product shipments, automated scan confirmations and unique,
sector-specific barcode development.
TrenStar has the capability of delivering the information to any Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and will support any service
through its 24/7 helpdesk and call centre facility.
Container rental
Whether you are moving chemicals or fruit juice, alternators or steering wheels, clothes or casino chips, TrenStar has a container in its
pool of rental products suited to your needs. TrenStar offers a multitude of different rental containers through its network of container
deports. All the pool items have been designed for durability, security and greater collapsibility or nesting for better space utilisation on
the return leg. At an extremely low daily rental rate the container rental options from TrenStar is the most cost effective way of
transporting goods and of varying your container pool by seasonality.
TrenStar also offers a specialised container design and manufacturing option for specialised dunnage. This service is also available on
TrenStar’s innovative rental structure, offering the most cost effective way of designing and building product or company specific
containers.
Logistics services
We understand your logistics challenges and are ideally positioned to help you address them. TrenStar’s logistics services are supported
by a depot infrastructure. Our comprehensive offering ranges from warehousing and electronic warehouse management to the receiving,
storage and dispatch of packaging, as well as the cleaning and maintenance of containers and their relocation nationwide.