Freight Transport

According to the KZN DoT communities in the rural areas of the province work hard at trying to improve their lives by being involved in craft and other activities. The distribution of these goods and service need reliable and affordable access to markets to sell their products.

The lack of reliable and affordable freight transport limits their efforts in that they cannot even get their products into local markets. Exports markets are even more difficult to access. It is for this reason that they are always seen along roadsides trying to sell to passing motorists.

The objective of the KZN DoT is to optimize freight transport to support rural development initiatives and vice versa. There is a need to address the logistics of transporting rural agricultural produce and crafts to markets and rural development initiatives. In order to ensure this, the KZN DoT Freight Directorate has already initiated talks with the Department of Agriculture, Economic Development and Tourism and the Cut Flower export council to try and address the deficiencies.