Cruise Tourism: A potential wave of benefits
20 February 2015
During his State of the Nation Address President Jacob Zuma announced that more should be done to open our oceans for trade and tourism.
As it stands, very little has been done to carry out the much-needed upgrades at the major ports in our country.
Transnet had made proposals to develop cruise liner terminals in Cape Town, yet no projects have been undertaken to construct this infrastructure. I submitted parliamentary questions toward the end of last year to ascertain the progress of the project and was informed that government had withdrawn the tender process.
This entire tender process has been mired in secrecy and this could open it up to corruption, collusion and tender irregularity. The sudden cancellation of the tender process is also a major contradiction of ANC policy in this regard and it begs the question as to why it was cancelled in the first place.