Little progress on CC investigation

There’s been little

progress on a Competition

Commission (CC)

investigation instituted

late last year into

Transnet for excessive

pricing and giving

preferential treatment

to some consumers at

its ports, according to

investigations by FTW.

And we should only

expect a finding, if

there is one at all, some

years down the road,

in the view of maritime

lawyer and former board

member of the SA Ports

Regulator, Andrew Pike

of Bowman’s.

Pike suggested that

“cargo interest” was the

most likely complainant

– noting that the last he

had heard was that the

investigation was rather

“in limbo” and that the

CC was “doing very little

about it at the moment”.

FTW tried, but failed,

to get anyone at the

Commission to lay out

some sort of dateline on

this investigation.