harbour authorities

Lt-Col Duma verified the container number by personally checking its existence at the depot and the authorities to ensure the number was correct and the container physically present.

“By ensuring that the container does exist, and it is in the depot ... so to me that is a verification that yes, the container number is correct, and it does exist because sometimes you can get a container number, but when you check with the authorities at the harbour or in the depot, then they do not have the container.”