THE PORTNET restructuring is to happen from June 1 when the current Port Authority will be divided into two separate sections - the Portnet Authority Division (PAD), under chief executive Siyabonga Gama and the Port Operations Division (POD) under Tau Morwe.
The Port Operations division will take care of bulk, containers, corporate services and marketing, and the Port Authority will take care of property and physical planning, strategic
co-ordination, corporate services, marine and port engineering.
Making the announcement jointly last week, Gama said the general manager's position for marine and port engineering was still vacant. Mvikeli Matutu is the new gm for property and physical planning (safety and security, environment services, property portfolio and capacity planning); Riah Phiyega is new gm for strategic coordination (marketing, strategy and policy, government liaison and business planning) and Patrick Dada is new
gm for corporate services (financial, information technology, legal, port training, procurement, human resources).
Under the POD the gm position for break-bulk remains vacant; Mdu Nene is new gm for bulk (strategy, new business development, research and development); Ronnie Kingwill is gm containers (strategy, new business development, research and development); Sylvester Haanyama gm for corporate services (human resources, financial, procurement, legal procurement, safety, risk and environment, information technology) and Pumi Sithole gm for marketing (strategy, new business development, research and development, communication).
The newly-structured organisation will be looking at creative ways of finding means to build new infrastructure.
He said about R1,7 billion per annum for the next 10 years was needed to build and maintain infra and super-structure to cater for needs.
A total of R1,4 billion has been allocated for the 2000/01 budget which includes part of the R1,64 billion which will be spent over the next three years on Coega.
Ways of funding this could be through private/public partnerships or through builder/operator/training schemes.
Copyright Now Media (Pty) Ltd
No article may be reproduced without the written permission of the editor
To respond to this article send your email to joyo@nowmedia.co.za
