{"id":29845,"date":"2022-04-12T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/transnet-suspends-durban-port-operations-due-to-floods\/29845\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:51:10","slug":"transnet-suspends-durban-port-operations-due-to-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/transnet-suspends-durban-port-operations-due-to-floods\/29845\/","title":{"rendered":"Transnet Suspends Durban Port Operations Due to Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s state-owned logistics firm Transnet suspended its Durban port operations from 1930 local time on Monday due to heavy rains that have damaged the roads into the port, a key hub for shipping containers and metals such as copper.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, Transnet said shipping has been suspended until further notice as a result of damage caused by the adverse weather, and vessels on berth are on standby.<\/p>\n<p>Customers were requested to &#8220;hold back&#8221; on bringing their trucks into the port, to avoid congestion.<\/p>\n<p>Transnet also said its Richards Bay ports, as well as rail lines in some parts of the KwaZulu-Natal province, are operating at &#8220;limited capacity&#8221; as a result of flooding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Transnet Freight Rail&#8217;s engineering teams will assess the extent of the damage, before full operations can resume,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s state-owned logistics firm Transnet suspended its Durban port operations from 1930 local time on Monday due to heavy rains that have damaged the roads into the port, a key hub for shipping containers and metals such as copper. In a statement on Tuesday, Transnet said shipping has been suspended until further notice as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/29846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}