Durban – The Durban Car Terminal has adopted digital technology to track import and export vehicles in the facility.
Transnet said in a statement on Monday that the terminal has implemented the system for over 60% of the parking bays at the site.
It said that the technology will improve the movement of both import and export cars in the yard that parks over 12 500 vehicles at a time.
“This is the first of two implementation phases. A total of 7 561 parking bays have been fitted with high-tech bar-coded labels which can be scanned using hand-held devices. The scanning of the unique numbers on each of the labels is then uploaded onto the company’s operating system that can locate any car at the terminal yard in real-time.”
Terminal manager Prince Manganyi said the system would eradicate delays that resulted from the extended time taken to locate the units in the stack.
Manganyi said that the Durban Car Terminal had invested about R500 000 over the past ten months to see the project through.
“We relied on the skills and talents of internal resources for system development, configuration, testing, resource training and it saved us a lot of money, yet the quality of workmanship is superior.”
Manganyi added that the terminal will conclude the second implementation phase before the end of the 2023/2024 financial year.
“The improvement is anticipated to increase the number of units handled per hour, a key performance indicator for measuring efficiency at the terminal.”