{"id":838318,"date":"2025-09-25T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=838318"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:01:02","slug":"south-african-ports-still-rank-among-worst-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/838318\/south-african-ports-still-rank-among-worst-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"South African ports still rank among worst in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa\u2019s efforts to improve operations at its main ports have gained traction, though the facilities still remain among the worst harbors globally in terms of performance, according to a ranking by the World Bank Group and S&amp;P Global.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State-owned Transnet Port Terminals is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-27\/south-africa-approves-5-3-billion-guarantees-for-transnet-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pouring investment<\/a>\u00a0into cranes and new equipment after years of corruption and mismanagement that eroded the quality of its operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openknowledge.worldbank.org\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/695e8bdc-eb9a-439a-a8d5-228593831ce8\/content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Container Port Performance Index from 2020 to 2024<\/a>\u00a0took note of the upgrades and measures, including better weather forecasting at two local facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe resilience demonstrated by Coega and Cape Town highlights that structural reforms and operational improvements can translate quickly into measurable performance gains, even under challenging global conditions,\u201d researchers for the World Bank and S&amp;P report wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, Cape Town was 400th in the survey, with Coega and Durban the penultimate and last of the 403 ports ranked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CPPI \u2014 which uses the time spent in port as a proxy of performance \u2014 is a <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/778456\/worst-ports-in-the-world-ranking-transnet-hits-back\/\">sore subject for Transnet<\/a> as it looks for investment and partnerships from the private sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It disputed the index last year when Cape Town was found to be the worst performer globally and met with World Bank representatives to discuss its view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outlook for the current year is also showing positive signs for Transnet, with lower waiting times at anchor and more crane movements, the researchers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEarly data available for 2025 confirms that the investments and improvements have already had measurable positive impacts on performance,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s efforts to improve operations at its main ports have gained traction, though the facilities still remain among the worst harbors globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":778500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2138,4423],"class_list":["post-838318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-transnet","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838319,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838318\/revisions\/838319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}