Durban Multipurpose Terminal records historic volumes for 2024/25 financial year
The Durban Multipurpose Terminal (MPT) has achieved a record-breaking performance, exceeding 200 000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) – the highest in its history – for the 2024/25 financial year.
The yearly volume target for the financial year ended March 31 was 131 100 TEUs.
Located adjacent to the busy Durban Container Terminals (DCT) and serving as its back-up, the Durban MPT has assisted in handling the overflow of containers to ensure fluidity.
“This performance is testament to increased trade, an improving economy, the terminal’s growing capabilities and a dedicated workforce that ensures reliable cargo handling,” says Durban terminals managing executive Earle Peters.
He adds that, over the last five years, the terminal had taken delivery of four reach stackers, noting that the Durban MPT was instrumental in the execution of the strategy to clear the backlog of vessels at anchorage in 2024 from 20 to zero.
The previous volume record at the terminal was in the 2020/21 financial year, with 182 198 TEUs. Despite equipment limitations, Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), a division of Transnet, says the terminal is capable of efficiently handling a range of vessels as this is a discharge-only operation.
The Durban MPT forms part of the Durban Terminals which are managed by TPT.
In pursuit of recovery, the business has set aside R3.4-billion to acquire equipment across its network of 16 sea-cargo terminals with the intention to offer improved efficiency and superior service to its customers and industry.
Recent equipment investments in Durban include 20 straddle carriers for the DCT Pier 2 Terminal, and nine rubber-tyred gantry cranes for the DCT Pier 1 Terminal, says TPT.
Comments
Research Reports
Projects
Latest Multimedia
Latest News
Showroom
The SAIMM started as a learned society in 1894 after the invention of the cyanide process that saved the South African gold mining industry of the...
VISIT SHOWROOM
SmartMine IoT has been developed with the mining industry in mind, to provides our customers with powerful business intelligence and data modelling...
VISIT SHOWROOM
Press Office
Announcements
What's On
Subscribe to improve your user experience...
Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):
Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):
All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors
including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.
Already a subscriber?
Forgotten your password?
Receive weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine (print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
➕
Recieve daily email newsletters
➕
Access to full search results
➕
Access archive of magazine back copies
➕
Access to Projects in Progress
➕
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA
R4500 (equivalent of R375 a month)
SUBSCRIBEAll benefits from Option 1
➕
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports on various industrial and mining sectors, in PDF format, including on:
Electricity
➕
Water
➕
Energy Transition
➕
Hydrogen
➕
Roads, Rail and Ports
➕
Coal
➕
Gold
➕
Platinum
➕
Battery Metals
➕
etc.
Receive all benefits from Option 1 or Option 2 delivered to numerous people at your company
➕
Multiple User names and Passwords for simultaneous log-ins
➕
Intranet integration access to all in your organisation
