SA’s harbours are slowly recovering
Cape Town port hit record numbers in 2024.
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Cape Town port hit record numbers in 2024.
Operational failures at the Port of Cape Town have become a major own goal for South Africa’s export economy.
Fifteen years ago, Transnet was widely regarded as one of South Africa’s strongest state-owned enterprises.
Here are five important things happening in South Africa on Wednesday, 31 December 2025.
Transnet has signed a concession agreement with a company headed by Filipino billionaire Enrique Razon to expand the main terminal at the continent’s top container hub in Durban.
Private South African freight-rail operator Traxtion will invest R3.4 billion in locomotives and wagons, almost doubling its fleet as the country’s more than century-old state rail monopoly comes to an end.
Nedbank and state-owned group Transnet and have agreed a confidential commercial settlement of their ongoing litigation around state capture-era transactions.
Gijima’s contract with Transnet came to an end on 30 November 2024, but it has refused to hand over control of the systems to Transnet’s internal staff due to concerns over service continuity.
Public sector organisations have increased infrastructure spending by R42 billion in one year, with Eskom leading the charge.
Press Pulse’s latest online media sentiment report revealed that Eskom had the worst reputation of all large South African companies, including other SOEs.