News / Maersk vessel forced to omit Cape Town as congestion mounts

13/03/2025

The port of Cape Town is facing significant congestion, which is set to worsen this week with more adverse weather.

Maersk warned customers yesterday that “the waiting time in Cape Town has not improved as expected”, after its prior advisory, on 5 March, that the One Responsibility, deployed on the SAECS Europe-South Africa service, jointly operated by Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk, and ONE, would omit Cape Town and sail to Europe from Durban.

While the One Responsibility left Durban on Monday, en route to ...