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.
