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- Durban docking numbers hold steady despite increase in traffic
- Wait time at SA’s busiest port is at least 4 days
- Its container terminal has not been upgraded since 1963
Despite the spike in attacks on shipping vessels in the Red Sea sending more ships along Africa’s coast, traffic at Durban’s port has held steady.
According to Transnet statistics, 744 ships arrived at Durban in the first quarter of this year, which is 29 fewer than the 773 ships that arrived in the same period last year.
A possible reason for this is the time ships have to wait to dock at Durban, South Africa’s busiest port. In mid-April, the wait time was an average of 4 days, according to Portcast’s port congestion dashboard. This was an improvement from March, when the wait time was 7 days.
Durban has long been known to have congestion issues, Transnet chair Andile Sangqu acknowledged at a media briefing in April. He said the Durban container terminal, which handles about 65% of the port’s container cargo, had remained unchanged since 1963.
— 24 May, 2024Subscribe to the weekly newsletter for more charts like this
