Southern Africa Terminal and Service Update Week 03

17 一月 2025

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We start the year with a much-improved operational environment in South Africa: no waiting time, low terminal, and yard density, plenty of depot capacity and an improving equipment position. Wind stoppages in Cape Town have been minimal - we have been blessed with a benign southeaster windy season so far – and bodes well for our grape shippers for the rest of the season. As we emerge from the festive season lull, increasing throughput will place more pressure on port and landside infrastructure. We start 2025, however, from a good place, with our services on schedule and fully open for business.

Further afield we continue to monitor the political situation in Mozambique – Beira and Maputo have high waiting time. Port Louis is recovering from the low productivity and the delays of Q4 last year and waiting time has reduced. We collectively felt relieved as the US East Coast terminal strike of 15th January was avoided with agreement reached with ILA.

Finally, the clock counts down on the go-live date of our Network of the Future – the replacement for 2M. We launch 01st February!

Ports and Terminals Situation

Terminal	Commentary
Terminal Cape Town CTCT	Commentary No waiting time, limited wind delays, services on schedule
Terminal Cape Town MPT	Commentary No waiting time, limited wind delays, services on schedule
Terminal Port Elizabeth PECT	Commentary No waiting time, limited wind delays. Terminal maintenance planned
Terminal Port Elizabeth COEGA	Commentary No Waiting time, some wind delays
Terminal Durban DCT Pier 2	Commentary Significant improvement going into 2025. Max 1-2 days waiting time; productivity close to target.
Terminal Durban Pier 1	Commentary Significant improvement going into 2025. Max 1-2 days waiting time; productivity close to target.
Terminal Port Louis (Mauritius)	Commentary 2-3 days waiting time
Terminal Reunion (Port Reunion)	Commentary 2-3 days waiting time
Terminal Namibia (Walvis Bay)	Commentary No waiting time, productivity meeting target
Terminal Mozambique (Maputo)	Commentary High waiting time – political unrest, some equipment and labour supply side constraints
Terminal Mozambique (Beira)	Commentary High waiting time – political unrest, some equipment and labour supply side constraints
Terminal Madagascar (Toamasina)	Commentary No waiting time, productivity meeting target
Terminal Rail DUR to JNB (City Deep and GLO Denver)	Commentary Some delays – impact of derailment at Dassenhoek
Terminal Rail JNB (City Deep and GLO Denver) to DUR	Commentary Some delays – impact of derailment at Dassenhoek

Terminal	Commentary
Terminal Depots	Commentary No restrictions on empty turn ins – all depots available. Please refer to our to our local information pages and our daily advisory for our latest empty turn in depot information
Terminal Equipment	Commentary CAPE TOWN 40’ dry stock improving, priority allocation list remains in place, to be reviewed week4. JOHANNESBURG and CAPE TOWN 20’dry stock – good stock levels

Vessel Operations

Service	Commentary
Service SAECS (278)	Commentary Service on schedule all ports
Service AMEX (040)	Commentary Service on schedule all ports. AMEX will call CTCT terminal at CAPE TOWN
Service SAFARI (160)	Commentary Service on schedule – 0 waiting time Durban DCT P2. Service upgrade with replacement vessels phasing in Asia
Service Cape Town Express (163)	Commentary Service on schedule
Service MW1 and PROTEA (251)	Commentary MESAWA (MW1) – On schedule CAPE TOWN (CTCT) and COEGA (NCT) PROTEA – On schedule DURBAN DCT
Service M Express (164)	Commentary Heavily delayed into MAPUTO and BEIRA. Ongoing impact of political situation. Service will omit PORT LOUIS calls on next three voyages to recover schedule into Asia Pacific (SGSIN and MYTPP)
Service IOI (293)	Commentary 2-3 day waiting time into PORT REUNION and PORT LOUIS. On time into TOAMASINA.

Service	Commentary
Service Export Bookings	Commentary Fully open for business on all services – no constraints
Service Import Booking	Commentary Fully open for business on all services – no constraints

We kindly request that you continue to pay attention to our customer advisories during this time. For any queries, kindly reach out to our Customer Experience teams and visit our website