DurbanThree dozen displaced workers returned to unjam Africa’s busiest container port.
Vessels wait about 251 hours at anchorage, and delays run 18-21 days, freight forwarders say.
A mid-August computer system switch froze cargo at Durban Gateway Terminal, which Transnet runs with International Container Terminal Services.
Transnet Port Terminals says no employees were made redundant when its partner took over.
Their three-month contracts end 30 November, and nobody has told them whether they will be extended.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- tests Creecy's press-conference claims against freight-forwarder numbers, showing DGT cargo still stalled since the August IT switch
Sources: Daily Maverick