Durban still competitive - Kuntawala

Transit times for international
freight through Durban are
still faster than Beira, according
to Yogesh Kuntawala, managing
director of Celtic Freight, which
specialises in the Zambia-Durban
route.
“Eighty percent of the vessels
calling on Beira first discharged
in Durban. We can have freight
on the Zambian border within
three days of loading in Durban,”
he says.
Delays in Beira could mean that
the freight discharged in Durban
arrives in Ndola before it is even
unloaded in the Mozambican port.
“And that excludes the time it
takes to clear freight through the
Mozambican bureaucracy,” he says.