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Top 22 Ship agents based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 53 ship agents headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 5,266 professional contacts across them, including 531 with verified work emails. Durban is the largest hub.
This list covers ship agents headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
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The 22 largest ship agents based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 968 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Through tenacity, courage, and vision, Grindrod grew from humble beginnings into a global powerhouse listed on the JSE and represented by subsidiaries, joint ventures, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 290 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bidfreight Port Operations is one of the largest providers of in-port logistics in South Africa with operations in every commercial cargo port in South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a leading ships agency as well as provider of logistics and maritime technical and engineering services, SGM offers a wide range of products, services and solutions to the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “LBH has been providing Ships Agency and Logistics Services for 30 years, with offices in major bulk commodity ports across the region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We have over 25 years of ship to shore experience and operations established in all the ports within South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seamaster Maritime & Logistics is a leading, internationally-recognized freight-forwarding business, specializing in custom supply chain solutions, logistics, warehousing and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Who We Are: Established in 1963, we are one of South Africa's largest private forwarding and clearing agents, with branches in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fairship SA (Pty) Ltd was founded in 1996 to provide the industry with a highly specialized, hands on service for all sectors of the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Alpha Shipping provides a top quality ships agency service to our principals and customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We offer Ships Agency, Customs Clearing, Road Transport, and Ocean Freight services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1989, Oceanic Seagull Maritime has, over the years, garnered a reputation for being one of South Africa’s fastest growing ships agencies and has established a great…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Please do not follow this page anymore.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With more than 35 years of experience, Freight Management is a leading provider of full-service customs brokerage, and global ocean and air cargo distribution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maritime Transportation” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Polaris, we are committed to delivering professional and flexible solutions to meet all your shipping requirements.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mentor Freight Services, based in South Africa, founded in 1994 as a licensed International Freight Forwarding and Clearing Agent, focusing exclusively on our expertise in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our value proposition As Agents, Brokers, Consultants in the logistical chain we simplify complexity, improve compliance, manage risk, provide solutions, create value, deliver…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “R&D Group Investments Entrepreneurially focussed investment company providing resources and support to business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Millar Maritime was established in 1996 as Ocean Freight Consultants and Marine Surveyors concentrating on offering Clients innovative support in the many areas of shipping…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WORLDWIDE SHIPPING SERVICES Stella Shipping offers a worldwide shipping service including freight forwarding, door to door, tank containers, bitumen containers, flexi tanks…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Every family has a story – welcome to ours.” Synergy is a wholly owned South African company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wadek Shipping (pronounced as way-deck shipping) is based in Cape Town, South Africa and supplies a world-class personalized ships agency alongside other various other assisted…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: ship agents. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names ship agents.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of ship agents, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name ship agents. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Ship agents based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 53 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among ship agents, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “ship agents”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names ship agents), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among ship agents, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 531 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names ship agents, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many ship agents are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 53 ship agents headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Grindrod, headquartered in Durban, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most ship agents?
Durban leads with 16 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (7) and Johannesburg (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 531 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 53 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.