Dock workers at the Durban Harbour [File photo]The operations were suspended earlier this week after heavy rains damaged the road infrastructure into the Port of Durban.
Bayhead Road south of Durban remains closed as mop up operations continue. This is a strategic route for the movement of cargo coming in and out of the province. “We were mindful that there were commodities that are urgent that must be kept on the market here we are referring to petroleum products we then arranged with the city of eThekwini that we should be allowed to use the Bluff road to access Island View where we allowed the trucks that are coming to fetch diesel and fuel and jet fuel.
“We have identified a service road that we are going to commission within the next few weeks which will come as a bypass to the area that’s been washed away that will then give us a decent flow of trucks into Bayhead container terminal and Island View that will then carry the 1 300 trucks that are coming well start easing off the embargo in Bayhead Road as soon as we’re done with the current fix that we have.
Operations resume as if the cargo don't need to transported via roads which currently are undriveble. 🤷♀️