A new system designed to improve the management of trucks into the Durban container terminal (DCT) and to reduce the truck staging time has received qualified support from the industry.
This after the disastrous reception by the Port of Durban container truckers to Transnet Port Terminals’ previous container appointment system.
It is “certainly more streamlined” and the “flow into the terminal has been much better”, according to Sue Moodley, chairman of the Durban Harbour Carriers’ Association (DHCA).
But, she added, that is “up to now”, while warning that it had only been operating for a week and with only a few users at this early stage. “Only 19% of the container road hauliers have been using the system and we will have to wait and see how it operates when more come on stream.”
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