If you have any complaints
about the ports authority –
in the form of the Transnet
National Ports Authority
(TNPA) – you may be
facing a tight deadline
for submission of these,
according to Durban port
regulator, Riad Kahn.
As was revealed in a
previous issue covering
the August 6 gazetting
of the ‘Ports Regulator
– Regulatory Principles
and Directives’, Kahn, in
conversation with FTW,
reminded readers that
certain of these complaints
had to be in his hands soon.
This, he added, referred
to complaints that arose
after November 26, 2006,
but prior to the August 6,
2009 publication of these
directives. The ruling was
that they must be lodged
within three months of that
August date.
And Kahn suggested
that the regulator’s office
hadn’t actually been flooded
– yet – with the number
of complaints that some
commentators in the market
were convinced would
pour in.
This requires urgent
action on behalf of any
of you out there who are
potential complainants.
The three month period
can be extended by the
regulator on “good cause
shown”, according to Tony
Norton, maritime specialist
with lawyers Garlicke &
Bousfield and chairman of
the National Port Users’
Forum (NPUF) – provided
the complainant applies for
such condonation in writing.
“Complainants only have
until November 5 to lodge
any complaint, the act
or omission in respect of
which arose between those
November 2006 and August
2009 dates,” he told FTW.
Deadline looms for complaints about ports authority
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