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Loyal clients sustain Mairtrans International Logistics Limited
Written by: Janet Mannings
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Mairtrans International Logistics Limited Chief Executive Officer, Donovan Christopher
Wignal at his office, Shop#28 Kingston Mall, 8 Ocean Boulevard, Kingston on February 11,
2022.
Janet Mannings
There has not been a decline in the income of Mairtrans International Logistics Limited,
a customs brokerage firm at Shop#28 Kingston Mall, 8 Ocean Boulevard, Kingston
despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 10, 2022 will make two years since Jamaica recorded its first case of the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and since then many small local businesses have faced a lot of
adversities due to the ongoing pandemic. Some of them had to close due to revenue loss and
many persons lost their jobs because of this. Luckily, Mairtrans International was not one of
those small businesses.
Mairtrans International is a full-service one-stop-shop customs broker, freight forwarder, and
international trade consulting firm. They offer logistics services internationally through a
network of worldwide logistics affiliates and they also offer full services in Jamaica. Logistics
is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of
consumption to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Due to the high demand
for imported and exported goods, businesses like Mairtrans International Logistics will be less
affected by the pandemic because of the services they offer such as consolidation, pick and pack, pre-distribution, warehousing, customs clearance, and even integrated solutions for end-
to-end handling.
Business is not always rainbow and sunshine as the company has its fair share of drawbacks
due to the pandemic, but our team of 18 employees kept pushing. “The business has been
affected in terms of our collection and revenue due to the fact that some of our customers are
using the pandemic as an excuse not to pay us for our services.”
“Thankfully, we did not have to cut any cost relating to our brokerage fees because of the nature
of some of our major customers such as Cable & Wireless Jamaica Limited and Anixter
Jamaica Limited.” Mairtrans Chief Executive Officer, Donovan said.
Donovan hopes for the pandemic to be over soon as he is making plans to expand his business
by opening a courier company in both Kingston and Ochi Rios.
Despite the doubts created by the COVID-19 pandemic, several business owners in Jamaica
are doing everything in their power to stay afloat. Mairtrans International Logistics Limited is
a prime example of this.