East & Southern Africa · Since 2007

Move goods across Africa without the costly surprises.

Two decades building and running logistics across the region — at AMI Worldwide and CEVA Logistics — now working directly for the companies that need it.

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18 yrs

In regional logistics

10+

Countries & corridors

Port→Door

End-to-end handling

Customs

Clearing expertise

Why shippers lose money here

The region punishes guesswork.

East and Southern Africa isn't a single market — it's a web of corridors, each with its own customs rules, transit risks, and hidden costs. Getting it wrong is expensive.

The wrong corridor

Mombasa or Dar es Salaam? Durban or Beira? The cheaper route on paper is often slower and costlier once delays and transit fees are counted.

Customs surprises

Missing permits, wrong HS codes, and incomplete documentation turn a clean shipment into days of demurrage and unplanned charges.

No one on the ground

Companies entering the region rarely have a trusted local partner who knows the agents, the borders, and how things actually move.

Who we work with

Built for the people trading into and across the region.

Market entry

Companies entering the region

Foreign businesses setting up import, distribution, or supply chains in East & Southern Africa who need a guide through corridors, customs, and partners.

Exporters

Manufacturers & exporters

Producers wanting to reach African markets reliably — with routing, clearing, and cost structures that actually work on the ground.

Importers

Importers losing time & money

Established traders bleeding margin to delays, demurrage, and bad routing who want a sharper, more predictable operation.

What we do

Two sides of the same expertise.

HGI moves freight and clears customs as a working operator — and packages that same hard-won knowledge into advisory work for companies that need the expertise without the headcount.

01
Freight forwarding
Sea, air, and road freight across the region's major corridors, coordinated port to door.
02
Customs clearing
Documentation, classification, and clearance handled so shipments don't stall at the border.
03
Corridor strategy
Choosing routes, partners, and modes that balance cost, speed, and reliability.
04
Advisory & consulting
Market-entry assessments, supply-chain audits, and fractional regional logistics leadership.

Consulting & advisory

Hire the experience, not a full-time department.

Most companies trading in this region can't justify a full-time regional logistics expert — but the cost of not having one shows up in every delayed shipment. These engagements give you that expertise on demand.

Fixed scope

Market-Entry Assessment

A deep-dive for a company entering a specific country or corridor.

From$4,500

Corridor & routing options mapped
Customs, duties & documentation requirements
Realistic landed-cost picture
Key risks & recommended setup

Fixed scope

Supply-Chain Audit

A review of an existing operation to find where time and money leak out.

From$3,500

End-to-end process review
Cost & delay diagnosis
Partner & route evaluation
Prioritised improvement plan

Project

Corridor Strategy

Hands-on help choosing and setting up the right routes and partners.

From$6,000

Route comparison & selection
Vetted agents & transporters
Documentation playbook
Implementation support

Ongoing

Fractional Regional Advisor

Your on-call head of logistics for East & Southern Africa, on a monthly retainer.

From$3,500/ month

Ongoing routing & customs guidance
Problem-solving as issues arise
Partner introductions
Continuity as your volume grows

Indicative starting points. Every engagement is scoped and priced to your markets, corridors, and goals — request a proposal.

How an engagement runs

From first call to goods moving.

Discovery call

We map your goods, markets, and the problem you're trying to solve.

Assessment

We analyse corridors, costs, customs, and risks specific to your case.

Recommendation

A clear plan: routes, partners, documentation, and costs you can act on.

Execution

We implement, or hand you a playbook — and stay available as you scale.

Amaury Hachez, Founder & Director of HGI Consultants & Freight

The expertise behind HGI

Amaury Hachez — eighteen years building African logistics, not just observing it.

HGI is led by a director-level operations leader who spent his career building and running logistics across East and Southern Africa. As Operations Director for Africa at AMI Worldwide, Amaury directed operations across 12 countries and led the redesign that made AMI one of the region's most recognised logistics names — the brand many in the trade still know today.

That work continued through AMI's path into CEVA Logistics, where he ran multi-million-dollar operations across three transit hubs for clients including GE, Unilever, and the UN — and into senior regional roles establishing entire country networks from the ground up across Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia and beyond.

HGI is where that experience is now applied directly and personally: a bridge between international companies — in Europe, Asia and the Gulf — and the African markets Amaury has spent two decades learning corridor by corridor.

Selected track record

Operations built, networks opened, costs taken out.

African countries directed under one operation at AMI Worldwide

35,000+

TEUs of minerals & metals moved out of Africa, with 35% YoY export growth

3,500

Trucks coordinated monthly across four Sub-Saharan ports

Country networks established from the ground up across the region

Figures reflect operations led across roles at AMI Worldwide, CEVA Logistics, Navitrans and Reload Logistics.