High level meeting addresses ongoing Durban delays

Almost three months after the end of the Transnet strike – which paralysed the SA import/export industries – the Port of Durban is still suffering from serious delays in container movement. FTW has been monitoring activities at the port’s container terminals, and executives from the shipping, road transport and forwarding industries are still complaining about the logjam in the harbour. Although no details have yet been made public there has been a meeting this week between Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), the SA Association of Ship Operators and Agents (Saasoa) and the SA Association of Freight Forwarders (Saaff), to try to find a solution to TPT’s inability to clear the backlogs at both its Pier 1 and Durban Container Terminals.