Products at risk of going off and animal feed stuck at Durban port

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SA has a “food crisis in the making” as a result of the recent unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and a cybersecurity hack on Transnet’s IT systems, with perishable food and animal feed languishing in the Durban port.

SA imports chicken pieces and the country’s processed meat sector relies heavily on imported ingredients for the production of processed meats, such as polony, viennas and russians. Stock photo

“There are major backlogs for both exports and imports in the Durban port. The port is running short of space to store containers and running out of plug points used to keep containers cool, which will result in massive food wastage if not resolved immediately,” the associations said. “Exacerbating the matter is that the events of the past two weeks have severely affected key cold storage infrastructure in the province.

“Besides requiring an urgent solution for cold storage of containers, an additional complication lies in the microbiological, phytosanitary testing of food product coming into the port, and the authorities' curtailed capacity to test arriving product due to the damage to some testing labs.”

 

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When people saw KZN Harbor go down because of the unrest, people quickly said in arrogance that we dont need KZN port, we can use the other ports. I hope it starts to become more clear to people how important KZN harbor is and why it was targeted first. SouthAfricaStarving

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This was carefully planned. No coincidence. Perhaps right to say, with love ANC factionals?!

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