Stone fruit producers have been forced to unpack export containers and sell fruit locally due to high winds disrupting vessel loading in the Port of Cape Town.
Fruit producer Hortgro says frustration about the delays has reached boiling point at the height of the fruit export season.
Hortgro said in a statement that the delays had resulted in massive financial losses as some containers could not be loaded onto vessels in time for export and had to be loaded onto a later vessel.
