Stats discredit Sapo vehicle delay claims

Alan Peat THE CLAIMS by SA Port Operations (Sapo) that the average vehicle delay at Durban container terminal (DCT) is 25-minutes is “far from the truth”, according to Craig Trickett, owner of Johannesburg and Durban based road transport operation, Truckit. This follows the release of figures by Sapo in April - at which time Trickett promised FTW that he would compile his own company’s statistics, intended to show just what sort of average delay was actually being experienced. “The times provided by Sapo are actually “gate to gate” figures,” he told FTW, “which don’t include the time spent waiting on the terminal access road until the vehicle gets to the gate.” The Truckit figures - based on six days when it had vehicles calling at the DCT - show that the average overall delay per vehicle was 1-hour and 45-minutes, well above the flattering 25-minute delay quoted by Sapo.