Following catastrophic flooding in the KwaZulu-Natal region, which has claimed 59 lives so far, shipping at South Africa's main port has been halted.
After five months of rain poured in only three days, the province's highways, bridges, and homes were flooded.
Transnet, a state-owned logistics corporation, says the Durban port has been closed until further notice due to flooding-related environmental damage.
The roads leading to the terminals are severely damaged and impassable.
Hundreds of containers were carried away by the roaring seas as a shipping container warehouse along a main highway was badly inundated.
Durban has become the epicenter of natural disaster, which is quickly turning into a humanitarian crisis. The N3 motorway, which connects Durban to Gauteng's economic core, has been partially shut.
Communications have been affected as well. More than 900 mobile phone towers have been reported offline by two major telecommunications operators.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has cut short a trip to Mozambique in order to inspect the devastation in the affected areas.