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.