Thousands of families seek to emigrate from South Africa each year and most wish to take some of their household and personal effects with them. Such shipments are rarely large enough to fill a standard shipping container so it is far more economical for small or medium shipments to “share” a container – this process we call consolidated or groupage services and Britannia was originally formed to cater for this specific demand. Britannia is a cooperative and is now the largest business of its kind in South Africa. This is the brief story of how it began and developed into...