01/03/2024: Despite struggling with flooding, looting, bad weather, and power shortages over the past year, Transport Port Terminal (TPT) has broken a few records in its operations across sectors.

Two of the company’s four operating areas, according to TPT Chief Executive Jabu Mdaki, are at all-time highs. Every year, the Transport Forum collaborates with customers to hear their assessments of the previous fiscal year and suggestions for the ones to come. which commences in April.

“Not only that but the automotive terminals would have handled more than 825 000 fully built vehicles by 31 March 2023 and break-bulk volumes would exceed 27 million tons in the same period,” said Mdaki.

This Transport Forum platform is important as it ensures TPT manages to share its current and future plans with customers, port users, and relevant stakeholders to contribute to making South Africa globally competitive.

The leaders of TPT in the regions of KwaZulu Natal, the Western Cape, and the Eastern Cape presented a thorough strategy for managing the infrastructure, upkeep, and supply chain process across the eight segments, including breakbulk, containers, coal, automotive, chrome, iron ore, manganese, and magnetite.

According to a statement from TPT ship-to-shore cranes in KwaZulu Natal are having phased midlife refurbishment while additional straddle carriers are being purchased by the Durban Container Terminals. At the terminal, programs like the driver truck management system were already in place to guarantee the security of the merchandise while it was being stored there.

The parastatal continued, “In recent weeks, the terminal had been fulfilling its contractual commitments with shipping lines and meeting the majority of key performance indicators.”