Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), the state-owned freight company's division that operates the container terminals at the country's biggest ports including Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Ngqura and Durban, declared force majeure late on Monday after its IT systems suffered a massive cyber attack last week that crippled its operations.
Two separate people, who asked not to be named, confirmed to Business Maverick that the port division had declared force majeure across all its container terminals.
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