Pretoria struggles to create container competition
New investment in South African ports will result in the expansion of container capacity but doubts over the direction of the government’s privatisation programme continue to cast a shadow on plans to engender greater competition.
A series of strikes over the reform of the country’s transport infrastructure has prompted Pretoria to think twice about transferring port facilities to the private sector, and the rapid expansion of container terminals elsewhere in Southern Africa indicates that competition may have to come from outside the RSA....
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