Durban’s congestion nightmare

Transnet general manager:
corporate strategy
Irvindra Naidoo last week
expressed surprise at South
Africa’s dismal logistics
competitiveness rating
in Barloworld Logistics’
supplychainforesight survey
(FTW March 9. 2012).
“That’s strange,” he said,
“because we have a really
highly regarded logistics
industry.”
Take a look at the picture
on the right, Mr Naidoo,
forwarded to us by Cape
Town-based shipper Peter
Newton last Friday, with
the following comment:
“This picture was taken this
morning from the inland side
of the Khangela bridge down
Bayhead Road towards the
Bluff. On either side trucks
queued along the Old South
Coast Road to Edwin Swales
VC Drive (Rossborough), in
the other direction (towards
town) along Maydon
Wharf Road to the sugar
terminal – several kilometres
in all directions is no
exaggeration.
“Makes our queues
at CTCT pale into
insignificance,” said Newton.