Pressure for Action Grows as South African Ports Firm Flails
- Regional business group asks minister to act against Transnet
- Freight forwarders detail list of complaints against company
Shipping containers on the dockside at the Port of Durban, in Durban, South Africa.
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Business lobby groups are piling pressure on South Africa’s government to act against the management of state ports and rail operator Transnet SOC Ltd. for failures they say are hobbling economic growth.
The Pietermaritzburg & Midlands Chamber of Business wrote to Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan last week calling for action to “address the failures of Transnet’s top brass.” The Sept. 13 appeal came days after the South African Association of Freight Forwarders detailed a litany of failings by the company.