Small Businesses in Durban

Durban’s economy moves through its harbour. The Port of Durban is the busiest container port in sub-Saharan Africa, handling the bulk of South Africa’s import and export trade, and it feeds a huge cluster of freight forwarders, clearing agents, warehousing and trucking businesses along the N3 corridor to Gauteng. Manufacturing is the other pillar: Toyota builds vehicles at its Prospecton plant south of the city, supported by a network of component suppliers, while Dube TradePort next to King Shaka International has grown into a hub for air freight and agri-processing. Add the Golden Mile beachfront tourism trade and one of the country’s largest metro populations, and Durban offers small businesses both industrial B2B work and a deep consumer market. Below are Durban SMEs listed in our directory — contact them directly, no middleman.