Transnet workers going on strike — brace for shipping delays

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Transnet workers going on strike — brace for shipping delays

Labour unions at South Africa’s state-owned ports and freight-rail company threatened to begin a strike this week after rejecting its latest wage offer, a move that may curb shipments of coal and other minerals.

The United National Transport Union served Transnet SOC Ltd. with a 48-hour notice that its members plan to stop work from Oct. 6, according to a statement.

[Bloomberg]
 
Yay... more fscking stupidity on the horizon.

Let me mimic Chicken Little, just shut it down... its beyond saving. Just sell the assets off to a private entity and then these fscking workers will find out what the real world is like.
 
So more loadshedding then? Eish. Shoot them, or just shoot a few and the rest might stop.
 
Keep on hiking prices, and courier companies will start stepping in and building their own shipping ports, railways etc.

Heck the Chinese does this so wonderfully.
 
Corelli said:
Keep on hiking prices, and courier companies will start stepping in and building their own shipping ports, railways etc.

Heck the Chinese does this so wonderfully.
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Yeah, courier companies are going to magically build ports and railways all over the place ... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Craig_ said:
So more loadshedding then? Eish. Shoot them, or just shoot a few and the rest might stop.
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How would that affect load shedding?
Suppose mining companies would have to deal with even more **** from Transnet's lack of performance.
 
R13... said:
How would that affect load shedding?
Suppose mining companies would have to deal with even more **** from Transnet's lack
Hanno Labuschagne said:
Transnet workers going on strike — brace for shipping delays

Labour unions at South Africa’s state-owned ports and freight-rail company threatened to begin a strike this week after rejecting its latest wage offer, a move that may curb shipments of coal and other minerals.

The United National Transport Union served Transnet SOC Ltd. with a 48-hour notice that its members plan to stop work from Oct. 6, according to a statement.

[Bloomberg]
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Eskom power stations use conveyor belts and trucks not Transnet rail for coal supply. The coal stated there is coal bound for RBCT for move to export markets.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Yeah, courier companies are going to magically build ports and railways all over the place ... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
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Not courier companies, but there are companies like Grindrod who would be able to take over the ports business easily.

Our commitment to unlocking Africa’s abundance is the guiding principle that underpins our operations. It is evident in our investment in Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC), and in our partnerships with the Ports and Railway Company of Mozambique, Dubai Ports World and Mozambique Gestores SARL. MPDC holds the port concession and is responsible for financing, constructing, rehabilitating, operating and maintaining the port in line with the port development plan. The port is perfectly positioned as a gateway to the sub-Saharan region, and is the closest port to the Gauteng industrial hub as well as the Limpopo and Mpumalanga mining regions.
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https://www.grindrod.com/solutions/port-and-terminals


And they do rail. In fact Transnet could pretty much cease all operations and just lease its property to Grindrod to manage. It would pretty much become an instant profit item for the government.
 
konfab said:
Not courier companies, but there are companies like Grindrod who would be able to take over the ports business easily.



https://www.grindrod.com/solutions/port-and-terminals


And they do rail. In fact Transnet could pretty much cease all operations and just lease its property to Grindrod to manage. It would pretty much become an instant profit item for the government.
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The big shipping companies have tried in SA already from what I know and government told them to fsck off.

But yeah a shipping company is a different entity to a courier company, and operating a port is one thing but building out railways and such is a different scale of endeavour
 
These people really want to see this place burn. I hope they tell their juveniles one day that they as elders are the cause why they continued to live in poverty and dust and have no future.
 
So our ports are fscked now...

www.news24.com

Almost 30 vessels stuck as 90% of workers on strike at some Transnet harbours | Business

Transnet harbours – apart from East London - have been hit by mass stayaways as a strike intensifies.
www.news24.com www.news24.com

Well done to the Unions for pushing us one step closer to having no real shipping industry at all.

I also want to know when one of these entities like Transnet will grow a backbone and literally tell the unions to fsck off... "Here is the increase percentage, you can either take it or fsck off and find another job since you all be fired".
 
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