The proposal is included in the government’s latest national infrastructure plan.
Government plans a major expansion of the road corridor connecting Johannesburg and Durban as part of a push to turn South Africa into one of the continent’s major trade hubs.
The project – which has been dubbed the ‘Durban-Free State-Gauteng logistics and industrial corridor’ – will see several developments aimed at strengthening logistics and transport corridors between the main industrial hubs.Integrating the Free State industrial strategy activities into the corridor,A separate Saldanha-Northern Cape development corridor is also expected to bolster the country’s integrated rail and port expansion and back-of-port industrial capacity.
The South African National Roads Agency is currently in the process of upgrading the N3 highway connecting Durban and Johannesburg. The 48-month construction project will see the upgrade of 6.4km of the existing four-lane dual carriageway to an eight-lane dual carriageway by widening into the median and outer shoulders.
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