CAPE TOWN: South African Transnet Port invested extra 2 billion Rand, that will pay for additional ship berth and vital equipment supplementing 12 billion Rand already spent for Ngqura port.
For the next seven years, Transnet will spend upwards of 30.1 billion Rand expanding its operational capacity in the Eastern Cape Province, this represents 9.6 percent of the total investment programme and includes the province’s ports in addition to local railway infrastructure.
Ngqura has a depth of between 16 and 18 metres, which designates it as a deep water port, enabling new generation container vessels to be accommodated. The Port has a 60 hectare container terminal which will be one of the largest of its kind in South Africa on completion, with a capacity for potentially 2 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs.) Ngqura is capable of servicing post-Panamax dry and liquid bulkers as well as new generation cellular container ships.
Transnet has committed to relocate the manganese terminal currently situated at Port Elizabeth to the Port of Ngqura as it grows capacity to 16 million tonnes.
