CUF Weekly Port Stats: Durban 44 656 TEUs ↓7% | Cape Town 7 791 TEUs ↓16% | Ngqura Container Terminal 15 110 ↑4%
Who We Are
The Container User Forum (CUF) represents a groundbreaking, industry-led initiative designed to transform container logistics through collaborative action. As a non-profit company, CUF brings together all stakeholders in the container sector under one unified platform.
CUF fills the long-standing gap between strategy and execution, converting collective insight into measurable system improvements through joint projects, shared data, and transparent reporting
Your associations are your sectional voice. CUF is the shared execution engine
Focus Areas
Operational Efficiency
We work to shorten dwell times, improve yard and gate management, and strengthen end-to-end fluidity across South Africa’s container network.
Policy & Regulation
We facilitate alignment between industry and government, ensuring reforms and strategies drive tangible outcomes across logistics corridors.
Digitalisation & Data Transparency
Skills & Empowerment
CUF promotes “one-truth” performance dashboards and evidence-based decision-making across the container value chain.
We drive skills development, training, and systems uplift to ensure world-class performance standards across the workforce.
Insights & Updates
Explore how collaboration is transforming South Africa’s container ecosystem. Our latest thought leadership pieces capture the CUF’s momentum in action:
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From Talk to Action: Why CUF Projects Are Different
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One Truth, Many Voices: The Power of Shared Data
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Collaboration Is Delivering Results: Why Now Is the Momentum
Global & Local Container News - This Week
CUF members receive in-depth newsletters that unpack what these global stories, and many others, mean for South Africa’s ports, corridors and container supply chains; plus a space to debate what should be prioritised for South Africa's container ecosystem.
Upcoming Events Hosted by the CUF
Our Network of Industry Members and Partners
Industry Members
Our core contributors and decision-makers who drive CUF’s work through active membership and funding support.
Our Partners
Partners who endorse CUF’s collaborative mission and engage in joint initiatives.
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Our Governance and Leadership
The Container User Forum was founded by a small group of industry leaders who saw, through their work in the National Logistics Crisis Committee, that South Africa’s container sector needed its own neutral, execution-focused platform. Drawing on the collaboration model proven in the bulk corridors and the Freight Logistics Roadmap, the CUF sets out to build a forum that will turn shared pain points into measurable, system-wide improvements.
Interim Board Members
Juanita Maree
Dr Juanita Maree is the Chief Executive Officer of the South African Association of Freight Forwarders (SAAFF), with a career of more than three decades in logistics and customs modernisation. She is recognised for her leadership in trade facilitation, risk-based customs systems and public–private partnership structures across regional and global supply chains.
Krish Reddy
Krishna Reddy is a professional civil engineer with expertise in leading record multi-billion-dollar infrastructure investment programmes across rail, ports and pipelines. He heads KRIDA Group, advising on infrastructure development, capital portfolio management and integrated logistics solutions.
Palesa Phili
Palesa Phili is the CEO of the Durban Chamber of Commerce, bringing over 20 years’ experience in the ICT and telecommunications sector with major multinationals. She holds an MBA from the University of Johannesburg and serves on several boards, championing inclusive economic growth and a stronger business environment for KwaZulu-Natal.
Interim Executive Team
Brenda Magqwaka
Brenda Magqwaka is a seasoned port and rail operations specialist with extensive experience in commercial growth and terminal performance. A graduate of the University of Antwerp, she has led some of Transnet Port Terminals’ best-performing operations and played a key role in national recovery initiatives through B4SA, bringing deep operational insight and stakeholder credibility to CUF.
Operations Team
Behind the scenes, CUF is supported by a lean operations team that combines a highly skilled CFO and COO. The interim operations team brings strong financial stewardship and governance, with experienced programme and strategy specialists who coordinate projects, data and member engagement, ensuring that every initiative is tightly managed for measurable outcomes across the supply chain.