Port Overview
The Port of East London is situated at the mouth of the Buffalo River and is the only commercial river port on the South African coast line.
Centrally located both nationally and internationally, the port is strategically positioned to act as the gateway between Africa and the global market.
The Port of East London’s geographical position gives its customers easy access to world markets, while reputation for excellent turnaround times is renowned.
Port Overview
A geographically well position, customer centric, multi cargo port that prides itself on flexibility and service excellence. Your gateway to opportunities.
Port Overview
Situated in Algoa Bay, 20 km north-east of Port Elizabeth, it is the newest port in the South African port system midway between Durban and Cape Town. This industrial port, which became operational in 2009, is located in the Coega Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
The port currently handles just over 6 million tons of cargo per year – over 400 vessel calls – with a 30-year forecast predicting up to 110 million tons of cargo per year. Offering a transit that is safe and efficient, the port is specifically geared to serve West and East African, European and Asian trade routes, making it a popular choice for container shipping lines.
The 4-berth Container Terminal has a depth of 16 metres, with 10 ship-to-shore (STS) cranes. The port also serves the industrial bulk commodity requirements of the regional and national hinterland.
Port Overview
Regarded as the busiest port in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Port of Durban is South Africa’s premier container, automotive and liquid bulk port. It also caters for dry bulk, break bulk and multi-purpose cargo services, as well as housing ship repair, cruise liner, naval, fishing and recreational facilities. Durban’s natural bay was first used in 1824 by European settlers who established a trading post there. Almost 200 years later, its land and water area of 1 854ha features 58 berths (of which 41 are currently operational), 302km of rail tracks.
A full range of port and marine services is provided:
The 424-person strong Marine Services department consists of:
• Berthing Services – for mooring and unmooring of ships • Marine Fleet – including 9 tugs, 2 pilot boats, 1 debris collection boat, 5 launches, 1 floating crane, 1 luxury passenger vessel and 2 helicopters • Water Services – which provide visiting ships with fresh water
Maritime School of Excellence
Port Control manages vessel traffic inside and outside the port 24/7, 365 days a year using the VTS system (VTS LOG), radar, ECDIS and the state-of-the-art Automated Identification System (AIS) for the monitoring of vessels at anchorage and inside the port limits. The 28-member team works on a quad shift system under the deputy Harbour Master.
TNPA’s 1 124 Durban employees handle approximately 3 000 vessel calls per annum with a total average of 90million tons per annum. There are on average 13 000 Truck movements on Bayhead South coast per day OPS, 136 268 cars and 197 141 pedestrians.
Future Plans
The KZN Eastern Ports Master Plan, is a flagship project for Transnet, which aims to position Durban as a globally competitive container hub port and Richards Bay as Dry Bulk hub and LNG importation site. The implementation of the strategy will see the planned relocation of the SA Navy from Salisbury Island, where the Base will be located in Port of Richards Bay and Satellite Station at the Port of Durban.
The Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan recognises the catalytic role infrastructure investment plays in reigniting the economy. Thus, government has prioritized port and rail reforms as part of its efforts to improve South Africa’s growth and competitiveness.
Consultations with key stakeholders are currently being held while the plans ate undergoing a validation process by independent consultants that have already been appointed by TNPA. Customers also have been afforded the opportunity to engage with TNPA and provide their inputs, insights and feedback to the plans and also share how these plans will affect their businesses.
Port Overview
The Port of Richards Bay is located approximately 160 km north -east of Durban and 465 km south of Maputo on the eastern seaboard of South Africa.
Its main hinterland consist of northern KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo. The port is divided into three precints, namely: South dunes, Bayview & Newark precincts, which focus on different services.
Port Overview
TNPA manages, controls and administers the South African port system on behalf of the South African Government. Situated in South Africa’s legislative capital and Mother City, the Port of Cape Town provides a wide range of round-the-clock port services for the container, liquid bulk, dry-bulk and break bulk sectors.
It supports an agricultural hinterland that is world-renowned for the quality of its produce, a premium fruit export hub, a vibrant fishing sector, a fast growing cruise industry, a marine engineering hub focusing on ship repair and boat &yacht building and a burgeoning off-shore oil and gas industry.
Marine services provided by TNPA include navigation, towage, pilotage, berthing and pollution control. Ideally positioned as a hub linking cargoes with West Africa, the Americas and Europe with Asia, the Far East and Australia. Growing percentage of cargo handled is transhipment cargo for onward transit.
Multipurpose Terminal (MPT)
The container terminal has been undergoing a 5.4 billion rand expansion that will ultimately double its capacity to 1.5 million TEU’s per annum and enable it to service bigger vessels. It included deepening the container berth to 15.5 meters, widening the 3 of the 4 container quays and equipping them with ship to shore cranes with double lift capacity and a reach of 19 TEU’s across the vessel.
The six-berth Multi-Purpose terminal handles a variety of general cargo. There are also specialist facilities for the fresh produce and fishing industries ensuring temperatures are controlled at optimum levels during handling and storage.
Future Plans
The Port of Cape Town has embraced the fourth industrial revolution to grow our footprint and build trade routes, leverage our property portfolio, build brand reputation and focus on operational efficiency – using technology to help improve our working environment. The port’s smart port development will see the integration of data sharing between Transnet divisions as well as an extensive wireless network which will revolutionise our operations.
This new wireless network will track Truck Turnaround Time, Vessel and Berth Data, Port Asset Management and Employee Access and Use. The project involves the installation of scanners, tracking devices and sensors on equipment, berths, trucks and craft – as well as the use of drones for data-capturing. As the gateway between international trade and some six million consumers in the Western Cape, the Port of Cape Town plays a key role in the economy. TNPA has programmes in place to spread awareness of the port and career and business opportunities it offers to surrounding communities, to ensure future generations of port workers, professionals and entrepreneurs from these communities can take up positions and opportunities in the maritime industry.
The beautiful Port of Cape Town has a picturesque backdrop of Table Mountain, and is a working harbour within close proximity to the world-famous Victoria & Alfred Waterfront that preserved the historic origins of the harbour and transformed it into a vibrant international tourist attraction within this busy working port.
Port Overview
The Port of Mossel Bay holds a special place in South African Maritime History, for this is the first recorded Harbour used regularly along the South African coast by European seafarers journeying to the East. Situated halfway between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, approximately 400km East of Cape Town, it is the only South African port that operates two off-shore mooring points within port limits.
Accessible by road and railway networks, the Port of Mossel Bay is an excellent connection point to the consumer markets and industrial zones of the Western Cape hinterland.
Port Overview
Break Bulk cargo is handled via the Port's Multi-Purpose Terminal(MPT) and includes commodities like iron ore, manganize, zinc, copper, lead, granite and various mineral sands. The (MPT) has a current capacity of 8 000 000 tons per annum.
The Crude Oil Terminal at Port of Saldanha was established in 1983 and can accommodate Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC's) including crude oil tankers up to 300 000 tons displacement . The Latter is accommodated at the oil jetty which has a handling capacity of 25 million tons per annum.
The General Maintenance Quay (GMQ) with a berth of 294m provides assistance to the Offshore Oil and Gass Supply vessels.
Future Plans
Due to its strategic location in relation to the West- African Offshore Oil and Gas Fields, The Port of Saldanha will strive to establish itself as a supply base to service the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry and ultimately a comprehensive Energy Supply Services Hub.
Other key core focus areas will be growing the port’s iron ore export capacity, increasing break-bulk commodities, diversifying the liquid bulk capacity and to establish and grow Ship & Rig Repair services.
