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Na'ilah Ebrahim

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Almost 71 000 containers are stuck on ships outside the Durban port, which is battling equipment breakdowns.

This is according to the South African Association of Freight Forwarders (SAAFF), which estimates that the 70 955 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs, a measure for shipping containers) are the equivalent of nine days' worth of cargo.

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