Waiting for late cargo is in the nature of transhipment business but unforeseen hold-ups, such as last week’s savage and unrelenting Cape Town wind, merely add to operational discomfort – in this instance the Maersk Dryden, delayed for more than 400 hours overall. This particular transhipment raised the question of whether Maersk Dryden was perhaps not waiting for containers to be transhipped back from Port Elizabeth after Safmarine Makutu bypassed the Mother City Port on February 23 rather than incur delays of more than 300 hours. Maersk Line confirmed this to indeed have been the case, 393 import containers involved.
