Commemorating a decade of port operations in the Port of Ngqura

“We are proud to commemorate the arrival of the first commercial vessel in the Port of Ngqura. The MSC Catania berthed at our shores at 10h50 on Sunday, 4 October 2009, off-loading 275 containers at an average speed of 19 containers per ship working hour. The vessel stayed for 21 hours before leaving the port at 07h40 on 5 October 2009,” said Tandi Lebakeng, Port Manger of the Port of Ngqura. The port’s container throughput has grown from 70,209 TEUs in the 2009/10 financial year to 744,660 TEUs in the 2018/19 financial year. It is the newest and deepest container port on the South African coastline – a trans-shipment hub offering an integrated port service for containers in transit to global markets and within the Sub-Saharan Africa region. Today it is one of the fastest growing ports on the African continent.