City Deep gets a bad rap for congestion

The City Deep inland port is not congested – in fact it has not been congested for months. According to Frans Seloane, executive manager: operations container and automotive business unit, the TFR facility is often wrongly accused of being congested when in fact other depots within the City Deep precinct are to blame. “People often forget that there are several private container depots within the City Deep precinct along with the TFR terminal. Any congestion on the road caused by one of the other depots does not mean that City Deep container terminal run by TFR is congested and to blame.” According to Seloane the average turnaround time of a truck entering and exiting the TFR facility is about 30 minutes. “Some two weeks ago there were claims that TFR container terminal was congested and trucks were not able to move, while it was actually a company next door that had stacked containers and was causing a road blockage,” says Seloane. “We do have peak times, but even then the longest a truck is in this premises is 40 minutes.” Seloane says congestion on the roads outside and near the facility cannot be laid at the TFR container terminal’s door. “One must remember our terminal only handles containers, while some of the other depots in this precinct handle bulk and breakbulk as well as containers which means they have several more trucks on the roads around here than we do.”