We are sharing the latest version of the cargo report. Containers are up by +1% this week; air cargo is up by +2%.
The following highlights are worth noting:
- Durban Gateway Terminal – current situation:
- DGT is showing tangible signs of recovery, with NAVIS N4 stable and the focus shifting to backlog clearance, equipment availability and restoring terminal fluidity.
- All relevant parties are engaged, with DGT, Transnet, shipping lines and SAAFF supporting coordinated recovery.
- Stack occupancy improved materially from 89.2% to 73.8%, while road imports on hand declined from 6,171 to 5,750.
- Import evacuation remains the priority, with 1,405 of 1,811 gate moves in the latest 24 hours comprising imports.
- Pressure remains on the waterside and reefer stack: nine vessels were still at anchorage and reefer occupancy remained elevated at 110%.
- The immediate objective remains a return to sustainable system fluidity, rather than maximising any single operational metric.
- Global shipping:
- Global port congestion reached a new absolute high of more than 4.3 million TEUs waiting to berth, driven mainly by weather disruption across East Asia, while pressure is also building at the Panama Canal.
- Shipping networks remain in flux, with selected carriers cautiously increasing Suez–Red Sea transits, while H1 port rankings shifted materially as Jebel Ali plunged from 10th to 32nd globally and several Asian ports continued to record strong growth.
