{"id":84397,"date":"2023-12-01T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=84397"},"modified":"2023-12-01T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:00:16","slug":"road-freights-call-to-end-useless-soes-control-of-vital-logistics-like-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/road-freights-call-to-end-useless-soes-control-of-vital-logistics-like-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Freight\u2019s call to end \u2018useless\u2019 SOEs control of vital logistics like ports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n

3-minute read
\n01 December 2023 | 20:57 CAT<\/p>\n

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South African ports have been grappling with high congestion levels and long queues of trucks waiting to enter the ports, which has now reached crisis proportions.<\/p>\n

According to the SA Association of Freight Forwarders, 96 vessels waiting at anchorage outside our commercial ports, which cost the economy a staggering R98 million a day in direct, sunken costs, at least R26 million a day of indirect expenses and R7 billion worth of goods from moving every day.<\/p>\n

The representative organisation of the Road Freight Association (RFA) emphasises that the deterioration of South Africa\u2019s ports and rail has been a slow, continued process over at least ten years. The management of State-owned entity (SOE) Transnet and its subsidiaries have been fully aware of the challenges and continuously informed of these by both structures within their respective organisations and the private sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing was done to counter this \u2013 neither to reverse, nor hold the decline. The executives, management and Ministers who have \u2018led\u2019 public enterprises (State assets and the management thereof) and the various subsidiaries of Transnet, are the ones to blame,\u201d RFA CEO Gavin Kelly posits.<\/p>\n

Kelly stressed that South Africa, currently home to the largest port in Africa in Durban, risks losing this status.<\/p>\n

Kelly said a couple of years ago, exporters used to laugh at Dar-es-Salaam, where it took 21 days to clear a container out of the port; it is now down to seven days. South Africa is going in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can no longer let state-owned entities that have proven to be absolutely useless to run these sorts of crucial logistical nodal points and infrastructure points,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA long road lies ahead of South Africa in terms of bringing ports and rail infrastructure back to a position of efficiency. We need the private sector to drive and control the nursing back to life of our vital supply chain infrastructure and nodal points,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full interview<\/a> on The Daily Round-Up with Moulana Junaid Kharsany.<\/p>\n

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