ICTSI preferred bidder for Durban box terminal
NewsICTSI has beat out competition from eight other global terminal operators to emerge as the preferred bidder for a 25-year concession to oper...
Cape Town battles high winds
NewsSouth African transport utility Transnet says that it is managing to cope with the extreme weather conditions that are increasingly affectin...
Widespread strike hits South Africa transport
NewsTalks between South African transport utility Transnet and transport sector trades unions broke down on 6 October...
Next step for SA terminal concessions
NewsTransnet has published shortlists of companies interested in jointly operating Pier 2 Container Terminal at Durban and Ngqura Container Term...
Record figures for Durban Pier 1
NewsDurban’s Pier 1 Container Terminal, which opened in 2007, handled 689,246 TEU in financial year 2021-22, breaking the previous annual reco...
SA terminal concessions planned
NewsSouth Africa’s first major container terminal concessions now seem likely, albeit under a different name...
Big fall in South African box traffic
NewsFull year cargo handling figures for 2020 released by Transnet National Port Authority (TNPA) show a 14.55% fall in container turnover in co...
Straddle carriers for Cape Town
NewsTransnet Port Terminals has begun converting Cape Town Container Terminal back to straddle carriers from RTGs...
Transnet shuffles the pack
NewsSouth African transport utility Transnet has appointed new managers to four of the eight ports it owns and operates...
Durban truck plan
NewsTransnet Port Terminals (TPT) is planning to introduce a mandatory truck appointment system at Durban Container Terminal (DCT). The proposal...
Consolidation in the straddle market
NewsThe sale of Terex MHPS to Konecranes means there are now three major players in the straddle carrier market....
Kalmar boooks 23 straddle carriers for Transnet
NewsKalmar will supply TPT's Durban Pier 2 with 23 1 over 3 straddle carriers...
Transnet terminals seek soft landing
NewsTransnet Port Terminals (TPT) is understood to have cancelled a tender requesting a six-month trial of a “spreader position laser guidance...
Transnet completes smartPORTS
NewsSouth African transport utility Transnet has completed the rollout of its new real time integrated port management system at all eight of it...
South Africa missing the boat
NewsSouth Africa, keen to become a logistics gateway for sub-Saharan Africa, is investing in its ports and railways with this in mind, but the o...