South Africa: Multi-Billion Rand Port Unveiled in Pe

16 March 2012

Port Elizabeth — President Jacob Zuma on Friday moved to inject energy into South Africa's infrastructure plan when he officially opened the new multi-billion Rand Port of Ngqura, situated outside Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape.

The port is said to be the deepest container terminal in sub-Saharan Africa and will accommodate the new generation of giant container ships that regularly visit the country's shores. State freight logistics group Transnet has for the past 12 years been hard at work building the port, which forms part of the Coega Industrial Development Zone.

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