In 2000, when international freight forwarder Röhlig and local logistics manager Grindrod merged, Röhlig-Grindrod inherited the joint IT landscape. The new company improved that landscape in several ways.

In 2005, the company switched from hosting its own servers to a hosting provider. It was migrating the mess of various Windows desktop systems to virtual desktops and moving onto a MPLS-managed wide area network, to effectively make `local data calls’ from its branches to its hosting provider's local sites. This meant Röhlig-Grindrod no longer had to rent costly dedicated land lines from head office to its eight national branches.