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.