Durban’s oldest port cartage company has decided to shut shop, battered into submission by years of inefficient performance by Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), according to Paul Rayner, MD and owner of the 109-year-old family company, DTB Cartage.
This was a company that originally started operations hauling cargoes out of the Port of Durban by horse and cart soon after the turn of the 20th century – and developed over the years into one of the city’s major short-haul container transporters.
The fleet has been purchased by another old-timer in the Durban road transport industry, the 50-year-old Gantrans group of companies.
