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Dube TradePort setting new logistics standards for SA

KwaZulu-Natal’s Dube TradePort air logistics complex at King Shaka International Airport (KSIA), north of Durban, is the country’s and continent’s first truly twenty-first century facility of its type.

“This is a unique facility,” enthuses Dube TradePort project executive: aeronautical Ahmed Bassa . “Before we built Dube, we went to the world’s top air freight terminals, like Frankfurt and Singapore, and we talked to the International Air Transport Association. They all advised us on future requirements [for air freight terminals]. So we designed Dube to meet future requirements as well as existing requirements.”

The Dube TradePort is owned by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government, and is, in terms of the Public Finance Management Act, listed as a category 3C entity, which means that it generates revenue and transfers it to the provincial revenue fund. “We have our own governing legislation and mandate to drive development,” reports Dube TradePort CEO Rohan Persad . “Our budget for this financial year is about R530-million.”

To date, the province has invested R1.8-billion into the TradePort (out of a total capital expenditure of R8-billion on KSIA). The TradePort figure includes the expenditure on all related infrastructure, including the roads. “Management of the cargo terminal has been contracted out to World Flight Services, which operates about 140 cargo terminals across the globe, with an annual handling tonnage of about 3.5-million tons worldwide,” he adds.

“Uniquely for South Africa, everyone – the air freight operators, air freight handlers, South African Revenue Service/Customs, South African Police Service, and so on – is in one building,” points out Bassa. “So coordination and liaison are quick and convenient.”

Technological Terminal

The fundamental elements in air freight are containers called unit loading devices (but universally known as ULDs) and pallets. All air freight is carried in or on these, and every single one, in the entire world, no matter where or by whom it was manufactured, or who owns it, has its own unique serial number. When an aircraft arrives at KSIA, taxis up to and halts at the TradePort’s cargo terminal, the ULDs and pallets are unloaded onto trailers called dollies – organised into trains and towed by tractors, these are familiar sights at all major airports.

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