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10 Oct 2022 - by Staff reporter
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Our top story from last week was the possible export of up to 50 000 barrels of oil out of the Port of Walvis Bay if a project in the Kavango Basin pays off. Read more on our number-one story here: https://tinyurl.com/yw2j5csj

The strike situation at Transnet dominated our top stories last week, and the news that port and rail workers were going to strike over a pay dispute on October 6 was second from top: https://tinyurl.com/yeyv35u4

Strikes also affected operations at the Kasumbalesa border, as irate long-distance drivers went on strike last week, bringing a state of bedlam to the oftentimes beleaguered border. Find more information on our third top story here: https://tinyurl.com/2s87w8ej

Back to Transnet; the parastatal declared force majeure on October 6 due to the port and rail workers’ strike. It was our fourth most popular story: https://tinyurl.com/5ajs9zvf

Our initial article on Transnet and union leaders meeting in a bid to avert the strike came in fifth: https://tinyurl.com/4uaktpyu

Rounding off the top six, was the news that South Africa’s port users had labelled Transnet’s assertion that the country’s ports remained fully operational despite the ongoing strike was “wrong” as containers were simply not moving: https://tinyurl.com/bddtm4f6

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