Bayhead traffic congestion cleared
Updated | By Steve Bhengu
Transnet says congestion along routes in the vicinity of Bayhead, south of Durban, has been sorted out.
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Traffic jams stretched for kilometres for days after a container truck overturned on Bayhead Road last week.
Transnet says a network outage at a private bulk terminal extended the delays.
Port of Durban General Manager, Moshe Motlohi says the backlog's been cleared thanks to - among other things - assistance from terminal operators who opened up their staging areas.
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"As fate would have it, there was now an industrial relation activity within the same operation, where wage negotiations lead to some withdrawal of labour by a union that was in negotiations over wage issues that further made the situation worse.
"But I am grateful to the metro police and SAPS for the sterling work that they have done over the period," says Motlohi.
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