Maritime/Freight Logistics

06/07/2017

The terminal, about 3 km outside Musina and about 13 km from the Beitbridge border post, will serve to move commodities, including coal, copper, nickel and chrome, as well as citrus, maize and tomatoes, from road to rail, and vice versa.

The Musina Intermodal Terminal (MIT), launched on Monday, is set to reduce the cost of cross-border trade, especially for bulk commodities, on the North-South trade corridor. The terminal, about 3 km outside Musina and about 13 km from the Beitbridge border post, will serve to move commodities, incl...

06/07/2017

The new building will cater for Ngqura’s growing staff complement as the port continues to expand into a major container transshipment hub for sub-Saharan Africa.

State-owned Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has unveiled a new R255-million administration building – eMendi – at the Port of Ngqura, in the Eastern Cape. Speaking at the unveiling, TNPA CEO Richard Vallihu said the 10 000 m2 building was named in reference to the SS Mendi troop ship that s...

06/07/2017

Two 144 t mobile harbour cranes [MHC], moved from Maydon Wharf, in Durban, to the Richards Bay dry bulk terminal [DBT] have been fully commissioned

Two 144 t mobile harbour cranes [MHC], moved from Maydon Wharf, in Durban, to the Richards Bay dry bulk terminal [DBT] have been fully commissioned, Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) said on Thursday. The move entailed lifting the MHCs with the help of heavy lift gear cranes. This was followed by a sea…

19/01/2017

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24/04/2016

South Africa’s premier bulk port, the Port of Richards Bay, is commemorating its fortieth anniversary this month. Over the past 40 years, the port had expanded to enable the export of various commodities, as well as increased its export capacity.

24/04/2016

Cabinet approved the appointment of Siyabonga Gama as the permanent CEO of Transnet

Cabinet on Wednesday approved the appointment of Siyabonga Gama as the group CE of Transnet. He succeeds Brian Molefe who was appointed CEO of Eskom in October last year.

16/03/2016

What is the Baltic Dry Index (BDI), how does it work and how is it calculated.. Read all about it..

11/02/2016

The first annual Durban Maritime Summit and the eThekwini municipality and eThekwini Maritime Cluster are to be commended for their vision of bringing the role players in the maritime industry, be it in business, the government, Transnet or academia together to make sure that pertinent issues to Durban being an internationally recognised Smart Port City are put on the table with resolutions and tasks to be undertaken to achieve what is necessary

The first ever Durban Maritime Summit will be hosted by eThekwini Maritime Cluster in partnership with eThekwini municipality. Picture: Transnet NOKUTHULA NTU…

09/02/2016

“This is the largest single contract TNPA has ever awarded to a South African company for the building of harbour craft. This demonstrates that the country has the expertise to compete in the global shipbuilding industry and to use the maritime economy to unlock the economic potential of South Africa, in line with government’s Operation Phakisa [Oceans Economy] initiative,” TNPA CEO Richard Vallihu commented.

The first tugboat of Transnet National Ports Authority’s R1.4-billion tug building programme was launched at the Durban premises of contractor Southern African Shipyards on Thursday. The 31-m-long Mvezo, named after late President Nelson Mandela’s birth town, would be handed over to the Port of Port…

09/02/2016

Maritime summit highlights need for Durban to become a smart port city

With a shift in freight transport from road to rail and a more efficient logistics system providing the backbone for a more competitive economy, the maritime sector, supported by the logistics and transport sectors, is becoming the biggest growth area for the local economy, said Transnet Port Termin…

08/02/2016

For a list of all public TVET Colleges

There are fifty registered and accredited public TVET Colleges in South Africa which operate on more than 264 campuses spread across the rural and urban areas of the country. Public TVET Colleges are established and operated under the authority of the Continuing Education and Training Act 16 of 2006…

08/02/2016

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