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FRIDAY 20 November 2009 NO. 1889
TPT reshuffles management pack By Alan Peat
There has been a monstrous management reshuffle and team restructuring at Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) which, said silver-mouthed CE, Tau Morwe, “signals a dynamic approach to the quality of its operations and a renewed focus on supply chain efficiencies”. But the immediate reaction of shippers, ship operators and shipping agents talked to by FTW was that it was nothing new – and management restructuring had been tried before. In the words of Tim McClure, MD of SA’s main bulk shipping operation, Island View Shipping (IVS): “It’s a bit too early to make any comments, apart from the fact that it’s been tried before. We don’t know the meaning of any of those names, and we’ll just have to wait and see what happens in practicality this time.” But it will have a beneficial effect and comply with customers’ demands, if Morwe is to be believed. “The organisation’s key priorities over the next two years will be to align the organisation with global standards by focusing
changes”, Morwe added. Linked to this is another change, with Litha Mcwabeni moving in as GM for strategy, with the task of forward planning of future capacity developments aligned to demand forecasts, benchmarking of TPT operations and liaison with key stakeholders regarding policy issues and government liaison. TPT has also decided to reduce its previous four operational sectors for
on total quality management (TQM) and human capital and development.” The terminal operator has decided to create a new department, to be headed by Velile Dube as GM for TQM and Continuous Improvement (TQM & CI) – a department designed “to implement transformation and change management processes with the aim of converting customers’ operational requirements to tangible
containers, bulk, breakbulk and automotive categories to three. These are the mineral bulk sector headed by Zeph Ndlovu; agricultural bulk and roll-on, roll-off (ro-ro) sector by Victor Mkhize; while Siyabulela Mhaluka will remain responsible for the container sector. These three departmental managers will be immediately supported by key account executives for the agricultural, mineral bulk, containers, break
bulk liner services and the automotive sectors. TPT is also to combine the management of the two Richards Bay terminals (dry bulk and multipurpose) under one team led by Ben Khonyane, former business unit executive (BUE) at Saldanha multipurpose terminal. Similarly the two Cape Town terminals will also become one. This sees To page 28
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Alwyn Rautenbach, MD of Airlink Cargo International, and Wim Kuiper, Martinair vice president ground operations, move the first pallet of cargo onto a new roller conveyor system at Airlink’s warehouses in Kempton Park. See story on page 28.
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