Meet Yoav Giladi Agency Port Operations Port of Durban Projects & Consulting Contacts Email us Home updated 8th Sept 2009	THE PORT OF DURBAN Originally called “Port Natal”, when first discovered by Vasco Da Gama’s route to India, as an essential refuge ad vital supply point. Port of Durban constitutes of the most strategic and socio-economical, commercial port in South Africa. In addition to other big ports like Richards Bay and Saldanha which pronounced fundamentally as bulk commodities, minerals etc, Durban which is the industrial and commercial back-up of the main centres in South Africa, is exceptionally vital to the South African economy. Its multitude of facilities used to serve the majority of the inward transport of the consumable industrial and grain importation. The port natural infrastructure presents all the necessary answer to long time future developments, pending calculated well thought and engineered, maximising the available structure without any interruptions or intrusion to the development of the city, ecological limitation or logistical facilities. The port layout facilitates optimum upgrading of the facilities to bring it to top world standard of productivity with enhanced security and back up to logistical infrastructure. Durban port was and should be the main artery of the South African economy.