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PORTS & SHIPPING

Ngqura records highest year-on-year growth

An upsurge in transshipments has pushed Transnet Port Terminals’ (TPT’s) Ngqura Container Terminal (NCT) to the top in terms of year-on-year volume growth. A recent study by the Drewry Maritime Research Company revealed that NCT’s volume...

By: Natasha Odendaal

04 Jun 13

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Port of Ngqura and container terminal development, South Africa

Transnet National Ports Authority’s Port of Ngqura has built two new container berths, doubling its container ship capacity to four.

By: Sheila Barradas

22 Feb 13

PORT EQUIPMENT

New R140m Richards Bay ship-loader to be operational by April

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) has confrimed that it has procured a R140-million general bulk ship-loader for the Port of Richards Bay. Engineering company Sandvik managed the procurement of the loader, which was was designed in Austria and...

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Port of Ngqura and container terminal development, South Africa

Two new ship-to-shore cranes have successfully undergone testing and will be launched into operations at the Ngqura container terminal.

By: Sheila Barradas

06 Jul 12

PORTS

Continued volume softening could see TPT revisit investment programme

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) had seen a softening in import and export container volumes in the early months of the current financial year, said TPT CEO Karl Socikwa on Tuesday. Addressing the 2012 Africa Ports & Harbours Conference in...

By: Irma Venter

26 Jun 12

PORT INFRASTRUCTURE

Transnet invests in Durban container-handling capacity

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) is buying six mobile harbour cranes to add to its fleet as part of a R438.3-million investment in container-handling capacity at its Durban RoRo and Maydon Wharf terminal. Liebherr Werk Nenzing has agreed to handle...

By: Natasha Odendaal

19 Jan 12

Qmastor Limited

Company Announcement: QMASTOR Limited- Takeover Bid by TPT for $0.31 cents per share

QMASTOR Limited has announced that TPT has extended its takeover offer until 31 October 2011.

LOGISTICS

Transnet’s ports chief says partnerships needed to deal with logistics backlog

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) has invested R72-billion in port infrastructure over the past five years and R18,4-billion over the past year to ensure that, when the country emerges from its economic crisis, it does not have inadequate infrastructure.

By: Margie Inggs

10 Dec 10

PORTS

Transnet Port Terminals unveils new management structure

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) would intensify its focus on total quality management (TQM) and human capital and development over the next two years, in order to achieve its goal of aligning the business with global standards, TPT CEO Tau Morwe...

By: Creamer Media Reporter

13 Nov 09

PEOPLE

Transnet Port Terminals appoints new COO

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) former GM of sales, logistics and commercial Nosipho Damasane, has been appointed to succeed Solly Letsoalo as COO from October 1. Letsoalo would leave TPT at the end of September to take up the position of MD in the...

By: Creamer Media Reporter

22 Sep 09

TRANSPORT

Transnet Port Terminals to expand Durban container capacity

State-owned Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) is looking to expand the capacity at the Durban port within the next few years, it said on Tuesday. The capacity at the Pier One terminal, the first of TPT's container terminals to make use of...

By: Esmarie Swanepoel

18 Aug 09

LOGISTICS

R800m investment to boost Richards Bay port capacity

Volumes at the Port of Richards Bay’s multipurpose terminal (MPT) have fallen by between 25% and 30% since the onset of the economic slump, but Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) is pushing ahead with an R800-million refurbishment of worn equipment...

By: Margie Inggs

29 May 09

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City	Company	Continent	Facility
Cape Town Port Elizabeth DURBAN Johannesburg Agriport London	Drewry Maritime Research Company Maersk TPT Alstom CH Warman Pump Group Concor Holdings Dura Explosives Hatch Hochtief Construction Ibhayi Manufacturing Ngqura Empowerment Contractors Ngqura Harbour Contractors SRK Consulting Steyns Drilling Trust Transnet Vuka Steel Sandvik Public Enterprises QMASTOR Limited	Africa	Cape Town Container Terminal Ngqura Container Terminal Port Elizabeth Container Terminal Building Contractors Port Of Ngqura The Port Of Ngqura Port Of Richards Bay Richards Bay Port Richards Bay Terminal Durban Container Terminal Maydon Wharf Terminal Cape Town Multipurpose Terminal Durban Point Terminal Richards Bay Dry Bulk Terminal Richards Bay Multipurpose Terminal Durban Port Pier One Terminal Pier Two Terminal Richards Bay's Multipurpose Terminal Richards Bay’s Multipurpose Terminal
Person	Technology	Country	Industry Term
Karl Socikwa Errol Greene Jan De Nul Lumka Khumalo Matt McDonald Krupp Victor Mkhize Nosipho Damasane Adil Rodgers Ben Khonyane Beverly Masson Gary Kleyn Hector Danisa Johann Botha Lita Mcwabeni Moshe Motlohi Sidney Bird Tau Morwe Tracey Neat Velile Dube Don MacLean Sandile Simelane Solly Letsoalo	Operating Systems Operating System	South Africa Austria China	Basic Port Infrastructure Explosives Hinterland Network Landside Equipment Landside Infrastructure Port And Associated Infrastructure Rail Infrastructure Steel Control Systems Freight Infrastructure Port Infrastructure Port Operator Rubber-tyred Gantry Cranes Inadequate Infrastructure Freight Logistics Group Steel Frameworks
Natural Feature	Province Or State	Product
Algoa Bay Coega River Richards Bay Eastern Cape	Eastern Cape Maryland	R1 Harman On Time Radio Infrastructure Ricoh R10 Digital Camera