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Transnet likely to seek higher local content in future tenders

By: Terence Creamer 13th February 2006 State-owned transport utility, Transnet, has insisted that half of the manufactured content, by value, of a newly-announced R3,5-billion locomotive-acquisition programme for the coal corridor from Mpumalanga to Kwazulu-Natal will be completed domestically. →

Utility tenders penalised local content

By: Terence Creamer 10th February 2006 Inconsistencies in the manner in which rules on local content and black economic-empowerment (BEE) have been applied in a slew of recent tenders released by State-owned Enterprises' Eskom and Transnet has the South African supplier community up in arms. →

Fixed investment boom to keep truck market boiling

By: Terence Creamer 3rd February 2006 A leading Japanese truck manufacturer believes that the widely anticipated rise in South Africa's gross fixed capital formation over the next couple of years will continue to drive the already heated truck-sales environment, which last year breached 27 000 units. →

Transnet-unions at odds over success of strike action

By: Liezel Hill 31st January 2006 Conflicting reports emerged yesterday as Transnet employees from four key unions began a strike in Kwazulu-Natal and the Free State, with labour pronouncing the action an overwhelming success, while Transnet claimed that it had minimised disruptions through contingency plans. →

Deepwater port key to IDZ’s success

By: Laura Tyrer 16th December 2005 A key stone to the success of the Coega industrial development zone (IDZ) is the establishment of the deepwater Port of Ngqura, which will provide direct access to seaborn trade. →

Shifting roles

By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy 9th December 2005 South African Port Operations (Sapo) CEO Tau Morwe said at a recent media briefing that Port Elizabeth would probably lose container business to Coega to play an important role, specifically around the automotive sector. →

Cabinet comes out in support of Gautrain

By: Irma Venter 9th December 2005 At its final meeting for 2005, cabinet this week indicated its support for the Gautrain project. This follows as the parliamentary transport portfolio committee last month questioned, among other matters, the cost of the R20-billion-plus project, as well as what it viewed as a lack of planned... →

Durban port receives new carriers, commissions cranes

7th December 2005 The South African Port Operations (SAPO) was to take delivery of the first batch of four Kalmar Series 7 straddle carriers in Durban yesterday, in keeping with continued efforts to boost efficiency and deliver world class service, it said. →

SA scraps Durban port concessioning plan

By: Liezel Hill 25th November 2005 South Africa has shelved plans to invite the private sector to manage the country's busy Durban container terminal in favour of a strategy to improve efficiency and reduce business costs, a top official said yesterday. →

Grindrod expects 2005 earnings to rise by up to 50%

By: Terence Creamer 24th November 2005 In line with JSE rules, shipping group Grindrod has advised that its headline earnings a share for the 12 months ended December 31, 2005, are expected to increase by between 45% and 50% over the 123,7 cents a share reported in 2004. →

Transport union calls for 'urgent review' of Gautrain

23rd November 2005 The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) has called on government to “urgently” review its plans for the luxury passenger carrier, Gautrain, whose costs have escalated from an initial R7-billion estimate to R20 -illion over the past few months. →

Mombasa waterfront is on the cards

By: John Muchira 18th November 2005 Kenya Ports Authority calls for international bids →

Smart-card solution pondered

By: Irma Venter 11th November 2005 Transport department seeks innovative solution to integration challenge →

Spoornet-Sasol sets 1mt/y chemicals export target

By: Terence Creamer 10th November 2005 Railways utility Spoornet and petrochemicals group Sasol have signed-off on a collaborative supply-chain deal, which should see a doubling of railed tonnage of specialty chemicals over the next three years. →

Lawmakers question Gautrain costs, timing

By: Liezel Hill 9th November 2005 The controversial Gautrain rapid-rail link project was drawn further into the national spotlight yesterday, as project leader Jack van der Merwe answered probing questions from the parliamentary portfolio committee for transport. →

SA group leads Kenya win

By: John Muchira 28th October 2005 A consortium led by South Africa’s Sheltam Close Corporation has won the bid to operate and manage the Kenya’s and Uganda’s railways for the next 25 years. →

NONSTOP INNOVATION

By: Helene Le Roux 28th October 2005 One of the pioneers of commercial vehicle production, automotive manufacturer DaimlerChrysler, is working on a number of new technologies that stand to revolutionise the industry. →

$92,5m facelift planned for Kenya airport

By: John Muchira 21st October 2005 Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has put out an international tender for the construction of a terminal passenger apron, taxiways, carparks and associated facilities at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), in Nairobi. →

Tanzania in big road-upgrading programme

By: John Muchira 21st October 2005 The Tanzanian government has embarked on a big road-upgrading programme. →

Eastern Cape contracts bus company to improve passenger transport

19th October 2005 The Eastern Cape government has contracted a bus company to be the sole subsidised bus service provider in the former Transkei. →

Radebe issues first taxi operating licences

17th October 2005 Transport Minister Jeff Radebe has issued 20 operating licences to Free State taxi operators who have converted their radius permits. →

Gauteng to spend billions to improve public transport

13th October 2005 Gauteng is to invest billions of rands in efforts to improve road infrastructure and the public transport sector. →

Framework laid for rail competition

By: Terence Creamer 7th October 2005 The South African government has finally moved to create certainty around its future strategy for the freight sector as a whole, but more specifically the State-controlled and underperforming rail-freight industry. →

Mega-project guru joins Transnet team

By: Terence Creamer 7th October 2005 State transport utility Transnet has appointed one of South Africa's most experience mega-project managers, Bernard Smith, to help it with the rollout of its ambitious R40-billion capital programme over the next five years. →

Navy ship for Navy in the offing?

By: Keith Campbell 30th September 2005 Recent statements by Defence Minister Lekota suggest that plans for the SA Navy to acquire an amphibious transport ship seem to have been quite dramatically brought forward →

SA lays framework for rail competition

By: Terence Creamer 29th September 2005 The South African government yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to the introduction of competition into the underperforming rail-freight sector, which currently carries about 185-million tons of South Africa's 1 150-million tons of yearly cargo and has been losing market share to road for over a... →

Geoff du Plessis

By: Terence Creamer 23rd September 2005 Full name: Geoffrey Cornelis du Plessis Position: CEO, MAN Truck and Bus Main activity of the company: Supplier of trucks and buses to the transport industry Date and place of birth: July 20, 1960, Johannesburg Education: BSc Engineering (Mech), Wits, 1981 First job: Development engineer,... →

German group looking to expand dominant market position

By: Jade Davenport 23rd September 2005 Power, transport sectors identified as key growth areas →

Transforming SA's marine services

By: Keith Campbell 2nd September 2005 The process of creating representativity in the Marine Services division of the NPA has simultaneously been a process of South Africanising the division. →

How ships are handled

By: Keith Campbell 2nd September 2005 Marine Services is of crucial importance to the South African economy. →

'Transnet's PFMA breaches not material'

By: Terence Creamer 2nd September 2005 State-owned transport utility Transnet has denied reports that the four breaches of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) referred to in its latest annual report were either material to the business or related to the actions of the new executive team, led by Maria Ramos. →

Rail is simply uncompetitive, specialist

By: Irma Venter 2nd September 2005 Rail has, over time, become an inappropriate technology for the transport of general cargo, says Arup South Africa transport economics adviser Andrew Marsay. →

Trailer industry benefits from moving-floor technology

26th August 2005 Moving-floor technology in the trailer industry is becoming increasingly popular since it enables the legal transport of larger loads with no risk of instability during unloading. →

A 'smart' breakthrough for bus operators

26th August 2005 One of South Africa’s largest passenger-transport companies serving Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo commuters, Putco, has awarded Questek a contract to equip 280 of its vehicles with a leading-edge revenue-management system. →

Aluminium saves weight and increases payload

By: Mariaan Webb 26th August 2005 The heavier a vehicle, the more significant the effect on infrastructure and road users. →

R3-billion for transport facelift

By: Irma Venter 19th August 2005 Treasury has provided R3-billion over the next three years to improve the country’s public transport systems and infrastructure in preparation for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. →

Gautrain's profitability hinges on 104 000-a-day ridership

By: Irma Venter 19th August 2005 The largest study of its kind – examining 183 road and 27 rail projects in 14 countries on five continents – found that rail passenger forecasts have internationally been overestimated by 106% on average, resulting in an actual ridership of less than half of that predicted. →

Rough times for SA aviation

By: Keith Campbell 19th August 2005 THE SA commercial & general aviation sectors have been hard hit by the failure of key parastatals & government departments to grasp their contribution to the national economy. →

Developed countries’ EV uptake strategies may be unsuitable for SA, owing to ‘significant’ wealth disparity, warns Frost & Sullivan

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