Involvement of private-sector partnerships invited in rail container corridor from Gauteng to Durban
06 March 2023 - 14:26
This is a big part of Transnet’s strategy for the entire value chain, from rail to ports, and includes initiatives it has already announced in respect of ports. In addition, Transnet’s integration of these initiatives into the broader group strategy offers economic value creation along critical parts of the value chain.
Ensuring the effective integration of Transnet programmes and initiatives remains centre stage, with a contextual view of the system and how each project affects critical parts of the system. It would be remiss to look at these developments in isolation: increasing container capacity at terminals is of no use if there is no rail network to transport this capacity.
In line with its plans to improve container traffic and bring other operators onto the system Transnet undertook a market sounding exercise, which highlighted the importance of, among others, bringing in freight logistics providers or international shippers that were already moving freight by road, and for them to be incentivised to shift this traffic to rail.
One option considered was to take the existing slots on the corridor and make these available to the private sector — after a similar approach to that used on the initial pilot phase for third-party access. The problem with this solution on the Gauteng to Durban corridor is that TFR can neither guarantee the train access performance that new operators require nor make the financial investment necessary to improve the reliability of the corridor.
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