The Port of Durban’s roll-on roll-off (ro-ro) terminal experienced challenges with dispatch operations earlier this week, preventing the port from meeting its daily landside targets, the South African Association of Freight Forwarders (Saaff) has reported.
In its latest Daily Supply Chain Movement Report, Saaff said the ro-ro terminal was expected to experience throughput challenges.
“As anticipated last week, the ro-ro stack in Durban has reached capacity, which is illustrated by the 99% stack occupancy recorded in the last 24 hours,” the report said.
It appears though that moves are afoot to address the bottlenecking.
Wednesday’s report added: “They are currently awaiting a vessel to load some of the cargo during the week, which should positively impact the stack occupancy levels.”
Durban wasn’t South Africa’s only port experiencing bottlenecking.
At the Port of Cape Town, cold-chain efficiencies also battled to keep pace with demand.
Saaff said in its report: “The reefer stack at the container terminal in Cape Town has been closed until tomorrow (February 9) as the stack is also fast approaching capacity.
“Thus, no new export reefers will be accepted until tomorrow. However, it is anticipated that a substantial number of reefers will be loaded on the Kalahari Express, which should alleviate the stack levels.”
