Ships are diverting from Durban and other SA ports as Transnet grapples with a week-old systems outage that has caused chaos with its container handling operations.
In more detailed client advisory notices, Maersk noted that a number of its ships would not make their scheduled port calls at Durban and Gqeberha and were diverting to other ports.The EM Astoria was skipping its call at Gqeberha while the Horizon was heading to Maputo to pick and discharge cargo there instead.
With systems down, shippers have no idea where containers are, forcing Transnet to send teams into the terminals to manually determine container locations in the vast stacks in each terminal. The cyber attack comes less than two weeks after trucks were burnt on the critical N3 freight artery between Durban and Gauteng, a move which also forced Transnet to halt trains on the parallel Natcor rail corridor.
“The scale of the attack and the sophistication of the malware deployed by the hackers bear all the hallmarks of a malicious nation state-sponsored cyber attack,” the alliance said on Tuesday, adding it was concerned the attack had taken place
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