While South Africa is starting to see the fruits of energy sector reforms, it still has a long way to go to fix the water, and transport and logistics sectors despite recent progress, says business... 

Development finance institution (DFI) the African Development Bank (AfDB) has released the first tranche of four of its $1-billion loan to State-owned Transnet as part of a financing arrangement to... 

A significant non-tariff barrier (NTB) that business in Africa faces is infrastructure deficiencies, which is hampering growth, specifically for the 16 landlocked countries in Africa that are... 

Private- and public-sector representatives have, this week, emphasised that there are potential solutions to South Africa's logistics problems and bottlenecks, that funding is limited and that... 

The Höegh Aurora, the world’s newly crowned largest car carrier, in November called at both the Durban and Port Elizabeth ports as she makes her way around the world. The Aurora started operations... 

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has again urged South Africa to implement its economic reforms “ambitiously”, while arguing for priority to be given to reforms in the electricity and... 

The motor vessel United Heavy Lift Fresh berthed at the Durban Container Terminal (DCT) Pier 1 last week to deliver the first nine of 16 Liebherr rubber-tyred gantry crane (RTG) component batches.... 

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) on November 25 celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the Umhlanga Rocks lighthouse, with the State-owned entity first having lit up the structure on... 

A trial to use articulated skips instead of traditional skips in the chrome loading operation at the Maydon Wharf Terminal, in KwaZulu-Natal, has set an efficiency record of more than 50%,... 

The Höegh Aurora, the world’s newly crowned largest car carrier, has called at both the Durban and Port Elizabeth ports this month as she makes her way around the world. The Aurora started... 

Container shipping companies like Maersk, CMA and COSCO have ordered hundreds of new vessels in recent years meant to help their industry's greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions meet rising demand from... 

South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has appointed Zutari as the transaction adviser at the Island View precinct, the Port of Durban’s fuels and chemicals hub through which about... 

Cruise company MSC Cruises vessel the MSC Euribia arrived at the Port of Durban's Nelson Mandela Cruise Terminal on November 8, starting the port's cruise season, port agency Transnet National... 

State-owned ports management agency Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) welcomed the British cruise line Swan Hellenic (SH) Diana passenger vessel to its shores through a strategic partnership... 

Logistics company Grindrod has suspended port and terminal operations in Mozambique after South Africa temporarily closed the main border with its northeastern neighbour over safety concerns after... 

State-owned Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has published a request for information (RfI) for a strategic pilot project to use green and cleaner fuels for its selected diesel-operated... 

Forklift and materials handling equipment supplier Goscor Lift Trucks (GLT) completed the supply of a fleet of 44 Bobcat lithium-ion (Li-ion) forklifts to global logistics company Access World for... 

Warehouse storage solutions provider Logistics Systems Engineering (LSE) has successfully designed and installed what it says is South Africa’s first ninth-generation Tornado vertical lifting... 

The new premises of independent logistics service provider Seabourne Logistics, which was meant to be a 11 000-pallet capacity contemporary office and warehouse complex, is now a comprehensive... 

The docking of the World Odyssey at the Port of Cape Town signifies the beginning of South Africa’s cruise season, which will see the docking and sailing of 268 passenger liners at the commercial... 

Western Cape Minister of Agriculture, Economic Development and Tourism Dr Ivan Meyer has expressed concern about the slow progress being made at the Cape Town port in respect of a terminal... 

As government and the private sector work to accelerate reforms and improve efficiencies in the logistics sector, experts from a range of spheres have emphasised the importance of targeted... 

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has signed a 15-year lease agreement with South32 Hillside Aluminium, securing the continued operational presence of South Africa’s only primary aluminium... 

Africa has registered some impressive progress in the shipping sector, United Nations Trade and Development (Unctad) has reported, in its 'Review of Maritime Transport 2024'. From the first half of... 

Naamsa | The Automotive Business Council and Transnet have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop and convene a naamsa–Transnet ‘auto war room’. This war room will drive the... 

Sandock Austral Shipyards (SAS) in Durban has signed a technology partnership agreement with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri and its Canadian subsidiary Vard Marine to construct the Afrika class... 

Following the recent High Court judgment on the Durban Container Terminal (DCT) Pier 2, which halted the contract between Transnet and International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI), the... 

Ports and logistics group Grindrod will acquire the remaining 35% shareholding in Terminal de Carvão da Matola (TCM), at the Maputo port, from Vitol Mauritius for $77-million. The JSE-listed... 

A month-long collaborative pilot with transporters has seen the Durban Container Terminal (DCT) Pier 2 improve its truck turnaround time by 24%, the entity says in a statement. The new truck... 

A South African court temporarily blocked a deal between the nation’s state-owned logistics firm and a company owned by Filipino billionaire Enrique Razon to expand and run sub-Saharan Africa’s... 

The Competition Commission has approved the proposed transaction whereby International Container Terminal Services (ICTS) intends to acquire Durban Container Terminal (DCT) 2 Special Purpose... 

Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the partnership previously formed between government and business to tackle loadshedding and other crises; the launch of a second phase of this...