Transnet Port Terminals

Overview

• Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) is one of Transnet’s various operating divisions

• TPT operates thirteen terminals countrywide, from Richards Bay on the east coast through to Saldanha Bay on the west coast.

• Terminals are “leased” from our “landlord”, Transnet National Ports Authority, in terms of the National Ports Act

• Each terminal imports, exports and stores cargo and cargo handled includes:

• New and used vehicles

• Bulk cargo

• Breakbulk cargo

• Containerized cargo

• Staff complement of over 7000 employees and TPT handles appx. 90% of all imports

and exports in SA.

• SABS interaction primarily with SHEQ teams (Safety, Health, Environment and Quality) in terms of OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 systems

Scope of Terminal Operations

TPT terminal footprints are usually divided into the following areas:

• Stacking or storage areas • Paved restricted container, multipurpose and automobile stacking areas, adjacent to

quayside.• Open concrete slabs or bins utilized for bulk mineral cargoes, • Warehouses and silos utilized for agricultural product storage.

• Quayside area is where loading of cargo from land to vessel (and vice versa) takes place.• Use of ship-to-shore cranes in container terminals• Shiploaders / unloaders used to load and discharge mineral and agricultural bulk cargoes• Mobile harbour cranes utilized for a variety of purposes, mainly in the multipurpose cargo

trade. • Stevedores utilized to move automobiles to and from vessels (car carriers)

• Workshops / washbays• Service all terminal mobile equipment and various infrastructure• Clean vehicles

• Planning / operations centres / admin. buildings / SHEQ• Offices used to provide support to terminal operations• Planning and ops centres are “nerve centres” of the terminal operations.

• Terminal boundary• Terminals fenced off from public and other areas by security fencing, in line with ISPS

requirements (International Ship and Port Facility Security Code). Strict security requirements exist to prevent access to ports by unauthorized persons.

Richards Bay

6-SERIES MPT /

BREAKBULK

7-SERIES BULK

Richards Bay

BULK TERMINAL

Richards Bay

6-SERIES MPT /

BREAKBULK

DURBAN RoRo

NEW VEHICLES

BREAKBULK /

CONTAINERSUSED VEHICLES

DURBAN RoRo

Durban Container Terminals

• Durban Container Terminal Pier 1 and Pier 2 are pure container handling

terminals, with no other types of cargo handled.

• Containers are loaded/discharged via ship-to-shore cranes and moved to/from the stacks either via hauler or straddle carrier and arranged by RTG’s in the case of Pier 1.

DCT PIER 2

DCT PIER 1

RTG CRANE

DCT Tandem Lift Ship – to – Shore Cranes

DCT PIER 2

TANDEM LIFT

CRANES

Maydon Wharf & Agriport

SILOS

GRAIN ELEVATOR

Maydon Wharf & Agriport

SHED 12

AGRIPORT

SHED 10

CONTAINERS

East London

Ngqura

• Another pure container handling terminal

• Uses modern RTG / hauler type operation, as employed by DCT Pier 1.

PORT ELIZABETH

CONTAINERS

MANGANESE

BREAKBULK

AUTOMOTIVE

CAPE TOWN

AGRI-RoRo

CONTAINERS

Cape Town

• Various cargo types handled:

• Containers – handled via ship-to-shore

cranes and RTG operation – similar to DCT Pier 1

• Breakbulk – soya, fertilizer, fresh produce – handled via vessels gear and mobile harbour cranes

• Agricultural bulk productsAGRI-RoRo

TERMINAL

CONTAINER

TERMINAL

Saldanha Bay

MPT

IRON ORE

STOCKPILES

IRON ORE

SHIPLOADERS

TIPPLERS

STACKER /

RECLAIMER

CONVEYORS

Saldanha Bay

STACKER /

RECLAIMER

SHIPLOADING

OPERATION