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            <title>Private operator sought for Port of Cape Town ship-repair floating dry dock</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A request for proposals (RFP) has been issued by Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) for a private facility operator to design, finance, construct, operate, maintain and decommission a floating dry dock at the Port of Cape Town under a 25-year concession.  The RFP has been issued in response to what TNPA describes as growing demand for ship-repair services, driven by increasing vessel traffic along the Cape Sea route.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Cape Town Container Terminal showed a 16% increase in volume-throughput in the first quarter of the 2026/27 financial year compared with the same period last year, says Transnet Port Terminals (TPT). Average truck turnaround time now stands at 39.9 minutes, with year-to-date truck turnaround times improving by 35% compared with the same period last year.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Transnet group CEO Michelle Phillips says the State-owned rail, ports and pipeline logistics group is putting measures in place to ensure that it no longer over-pays for goods and services. Speaking at the SAPICS 2026 conference held in Cape Town last month, she said recent reforms within the entity included rolling out a catalogue of market-pricing, so that “if a part is R1.50, and you put in R1 500, the system will not allow you to buy that”.]]></description>
            <author>Irma Venter</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) says it has recorded “significant operational improvements” at the Port of Cape Town, with progress in terminal performance, reduced ship turnaround time (STAT) and increased volume throughput across key commodity sectors. According to the State-owned port operator, it has achieved consistent year-on-year improvements in container terminal STAT, decreasing from 103 hours in the 2023/24 financial year to 83 hours in 2024/25, with a further improvement to 74 hours in 2025/26.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The V&A Waterfront and Damen Shipyards Cape Town have marked the official start of pontoon production for the Quay 7 Superyacht Marina with a keel-laying ceremony at Damen Shipyards’ factory in the Port of Cape Town. The R230-million marina is on track for completion on October 31, with the official opening planned for November. Work is roughly 45% complete.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) is inviting requests for proposals (RFPs) from qualified investors to develop two logistics sites at Ambrose Park in the Port of Durban. The project aims to boost port capacity, improve operational efficiency and drive long-term economic growth.]]></description>
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            <title>228-m oil tanker undergoes maintenance at Prince Edward Graving Dock</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) reports that it has successfully docked a 228-m oil tanker at the Port of Durban’s historic Prince Edward Graving Dock, which was first commissioned in 1924. The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, Troy, is 228 m in length, has an extreme breadth of 32.2 m, a deadweight capacity of 73 180 t, and is the first vessel of its size to utilise the ship repair facility in more than a decade.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>TFR making progress on coal rail line improvements</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa has an abundance of coal reserves, but the coal mining sector’s competitiveness requires an efficient logistical network to move coal from mine to market. While the industry has faced significant challenges with regard to rail reliability, infrastructure security concerns and port constraints, performance in the sector is improving and collaboration is strengthening.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) is seeking a new private terminal operator for the Duncan Dock Precinct, one of two multi-purpose terminals at the Port of Cape Town. The terminal is also one of nine of the port’s eleven terminals that are currently privately operated, but the incumbent terminal operator’s lease is due to expire in 2027.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>City welcomes Transnet's call for private partners for the Port of Cape Town</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The City of Cape Town welcomes State-owned Transnet's call for private sector partners to upgrade and operate the multipurpose terminal at the Port of Cape Town. Transnet’s request for proposals is for private sector partners to redevelop and operate Cape Town’s multipurpose port terminal under a 25-year concession.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>Phillips questions need for middlemen, slams practice of overcharging Transnet</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Transnet group CEO Michelle Phillips says the State-owned rail, ports and pipeline logistics group is putting measures in place to ensure that it no longer over-pays for goods and services. Speaking at the SAPICS 2026 conference held in Cape Town this week, she said recent reforms within the entity included rolling out a catalogue of market-pricing, so that “if a part is R1.50, and you put in R1 500, the system will not allow you to buy that”.]]></description>
            <author>Irma Venter</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The V&A Waterfront and Damen Shipyards Cape Town have marked the official start of pontoon production for the Quay 7 Superyacht Marina, with a keel-laying ceremony at Damen Shipyards’ factory in the Port of Cape Town. The R230-million marina is on track for completion on October 31, with the official opening planned for November. Work is roughly 45% complete.]]></description>
            <author>Irma Venter</author>
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            <title>Innovatively expanding infrastructure to accommodate diverse value chains likely to boost ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Uganda, in 2015, worked with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to build roads in the eastern DRC, which enabled goods manufactured in Uganda to be exported to this region, benefitting Uganda and the DRC. During the second day of the Manufacturing Indaba, in Johannesburg, on July 15, natural resource development organisation Uganda Chamber of Energy and Minerals CEO Humphrey Asiimwe cited this as an example of the benefits of African countries not focusing solely on their own needs, but also considering how they could support their neighbours and trade partners through the auspices of regional bodies.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has extended the term of State-owned Transnet's board of directors by six months to January 11, 2027, or until the appointment process for the new board is finalised, whichever occurs first. The board's terms had previously been due to end on July 12.]]></description>
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            <title>‘Significant operational improvements’ recorded at Cape Town port – TNPA</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) says it has recorded “significant operational improvements” at the Port of Cape Town, with progress in terminal performance, reduced ship turnaround time (STAT) and increased volume throughput across key commodity sectors. According to the State-owned port operator it has achieved consistent year-on-year improvements in container terminal STAT, decreasing from 103 hours in the 2023/24 financial year to 83 hours in 2024/25, with a further improvement to 74 hours in 2025/26.]]></description>
            <author>Irma Venter</author>
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            <title>Transnet Port Terminals moves to have seven companies blacklisted over unethical, unlawful conduct</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As part of its intensified drive to combat fraud, theft and corruption across its business, State-owned Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) says it has successfully applied to the National Treasury for the blacklisting of seven companies implicated in serious unethical and unlawful conduct. This follows forensic investigations supported by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), which uncovered a range of irregularities, including financial misconduct, kickback schemes, bribery, the theft of company assets, collusion and the submission of false information.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Efficient sea and air freight operations play a critical role in facilitating market access for high-value perishables. The faster growers and freight forwarders can move products from farm to market, the higher the derived value, owing to extended shelf life, reduced waste and, ultimately, lower costs for retailers and consumers, says special economic zone (SEZ) Dube TradePort. Consequently, Dube TradePort is preparing to launch the second phase of its Dube AgriZone, an 18 ha, fully serviced, agriculture-focused development aimed at unlocking opportunities for “agri-entrepreneurs”, smaller growers, emerging farmers and horticulturalists.]]></description>
            <author>Lynne Davies</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Cape Town Container Terminal (CTCT) has taken delivery of four new hybrid straddle carriers. The R96-million investment forms part of Transnet Port Terminal’s (TPT’s) equipment replacement programme to work towards the full recovery of its terminal operations. ]]></description>
            <author>Irma Venter</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has finalised all 11 terminal operator agreements with fuel and chemical handlers at the Island View complex, the State-owned company said on Monday, even as a legal challenge risks overturning the deals. TNPA was instructed by Transport Minister Barbara Creecy last year to sign the 25-year agreements after she invoked special rules to help energy security.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Logistics group Grindrod has confirmed that it has signed a rail access agreement (RAA) with the Transnet Rail Infrastructure Manager (TRIM), formally enabling its participation in South Africa’s Open Access Rail initiative. These agreements form part of South Africa’s rail reform journey, as it advances increased private sector participation, aimed at improving the efficiency, capacity and competitiveness of the national freight logistics system.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has confirmed that major private sector participation (PSP) projects in the freight logistics sector will be brought to market in the current financial year and that the first private train operating companies (TOCs) will begin operating from April 2027. Delivering the department’s R102-billion Budget Vote the day before the identities of the first 11 TOCs were due to be formally announced, Creecy said these private operators could be expected to move 24-million tons of cargo yearly once fully operational.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron and more than 30 African leaders kicked off a summit in Kenya on Monday aimed at diversifying Paris' partnerships on the continent and clinching new investment deals. The Africa Forward Summit is the first France has organised in an English-speaking nation since it began holding such events in the 1970s and follows a series of setbacks in former colonies in West Africa that have moved to reduce French influence.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s State-owned ports authority has initiated a bidding process for the appointment of a new private terminal operator at the Port of Cape Town’s existing liquid bulk terminal for a 25-year concession period. The brownfield site comprises a tank farm with eight storage tanks offering a combined storage capacity of about 44 430 m³, including an adjacent storage warehouse and administration building.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[African ports are capturing only a fraction of shipping rerouted around the continent’s southern tip after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, underscoring their limited ability to turn global trade disruptions into gains. Since the chokepoint shut on February 28 due to the US-Israel war with Iran, vessels have rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope as an alternative to a corridor that normally carries about a quarter of the world’s seaborne oil along with large volumes of liquefied natural gas and fertilizers.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[State-owned freight logistics group Transnet has signed a €300-million (R5.8-billion) with Agence française de développement (AFD) to support its transition to a low-carbon operating model. The loan is linked to South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Investment Plan, and fulfils France’s larger €1-billion commitment announced at COP26.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced policymakers in Asia to face questions over the security of other maritime chokepoints, including the Strait of Malacca, which is the world's busiest waterway for international trade. The 900-km-long Malacca Strait, bounded by Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, provides the shortest sea route from East Asia to the Middle East and Europe.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Metso has expanded its global bulk-materials handling network with the opening of a new regional hub in Cape Town. The Finnish group supplies technologies, solutions and services to the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries worldwide.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global disruptions, including geopolitical conflicts and logistics bottlenecks, have transformed procurement into one of the most strategically important capabilities within modern organisations, says professional body the Chartered Institute for Procurement and Supply (CIPS). The war between the US-Israel and Iran is threatening one of the world’s most critical shipping corridors. The Suez Canal and Red Sea trade route normally handles about 12% to 15% of global trade and nearly 30% of global container traffic, representing more than $1-trillion worth of goods moving between Asia, Europe and Africa each year.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In fusing automation and AI with real-time operations through its latest Tower model – an innovation that leverages digital twin technology – energy solutions company Schneider Electric is enabling optimisation for logistics, rail and seafaring operations. The company is helping logistics and transport companies mitigate the challenges of South African ports, rail systems and roads, including congestion and the state of infrastructure.]]></description>
            <author>Trent Roebeck</author>
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