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title: What an AI agent reads on Cape Town Harbour · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/ports.co.za/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Cape Town Harbour

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [ports.co.za](http://ports.co.za/cape-town.php), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

9,576

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

1

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (ClaudeBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Port of Cape Town. First 1,800 of 9,576 characters:

```
Port of Cape Town - Maritime Services Directory - News - Ship Movements - The Shipping World - Cruise News &amp; Reviews - Events Diary - Sea Stories - Naval Review Port Operators - Transnet National Ports Authority South African ports - General Info - Durban - Richards Bay - Cape Town - Port Elizabeth - East London - Mossel Bay - Saldanha Bay - Port Nolloth - Coega Namibia - Walvis Bay - Luderitz Angola - Lobito - Luanda Cameroon - Douala - Port Limbe Nigeria - Bonny - Port Harcourt - Onne - Lagos Benin - Cotonou Togo - Lome Ghana - Tema Cote d&#39;Ivoire - Abidjan Guinea - Conakry Mozambique - Maputo - Beira - Nacala Madagascar - Toamasina Tanzania - Dar es Salaam Kenya - Mombasa Mauritius - Port Louis - Legal News &amp; Opinion - Glossary of Maritime Terms � - Useful Links - Contact Us - Home - PAIA Manual Receive our Newsletter Enter your e-mail address below Enter your City, Country location below Cape Town CONTACT Transnet National Ports Authority Port of Cape Town PO Box 4245 8000 CAPE TOWN Tel (+27) 021 449 3408 / 2612 Fax (+27) 021 449 3107 Port Control (24 hours) (27) 021 449 2805 Tel (+27) 021 449 2612 (Port Manager) email Sipho.Nzuza@transnet.net Tel (+27) 021 449 5762 (Harbourmaster) email Vernal.Jones@transnet.net Tel (+27) 021 449 6173 (Port Engineer) Tel (+27) 021 449 3408 (Public Affairs Dept) Tel (+27) 021 2007 (Marine Department) Tel (+27) 021 449 2389 Corporate Communications Manager (Mr Coen Birkenstock) Tel (+27) 021 449 2142 (Marketing) Tel (+27) 021 419 0260 (SA Police) Tel (+27) 021 449 3500 (Sea Rescue) website http://www.transnetnationalportsauthority.net/ Transnet Port Terminals (TPT, formerly SA Port Operations) CAPE TOWN CONTAINER &amp; MULTI PURPOSE TERMINAL Tel (+27) 021 449 3726 (24 hours) Tel (+27) 021 449 4251 (Container Terminal) Tel (+27) 021 449 33
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 0 |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

Everything here comes from fetching the homepage once as a crawler. The [report](https://directindex.org/r/ports.co.za) turns it into a score and a list of fixes, with code to paste.

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```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```
