Road Freight Association CEO Gavin Kelly says attack created massive delays and unreliability in the movement of goods.
He said it created massive delays and created unreliability of the movement of goods across all modes of transport – with road freight bearing the brunt of the impact."This has an immediate effect as the queues will get a lot longer, deliveries will be delayed and congestion will increase. The manual processes being used are also creating problems in terms of operations.
’’Road freight operators already have a huge backlog resulting from last week’s civil unrest," he said."Deliveries will become unreliable and unpredictable – adding further inefficiencies into the supply chain," he said."In the meantime, an alternative system – even if manual – needs to be put in place to ensure freight keeps moving into and out of the ports.""The past five years have seen our ports deteriorating further.
’’The effects of the cyber-attack are going to result in further reputational damage to South Africa. This further threatens our country’s status as the ‘Gateway to Africa’ for the import and export of goods," he said. Kelly said if this matter was not addressed urgently, the non-functioning of the ports will be yet another reason why international traders and shippers will choose other ports in Africa through which to move goods.
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