Recovery, reform and ongoing resistance against the challenge of crime remain at the centre of Transnets current trajectory, board chairperson Dr Andile Sangqu said at the state-owned entitys SOE annual financial year results announcement in Sandton.
Reflecting on ship-to-shore gains made through procuring much-needed machinery at key ports like Durban and Cape Town, an observation that has been confirmed by week-on-week cargo movement updates by the South African Association of Freight Forwarders Saaff and Business Unity SA, Sangqu said: We are not out of the woods yet as several challenges persist.
Primary among these was infrastructure damage, he said, speaking at the end of a week when, on one day, in just one of the reported incidents, police arrested 21 suspects at a rail freight depot in Gqberha see report posted on August 4.