Transport News
Rail protocol ratification approved
The South African Cabinet officially authorized the submission of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention (LRP) to Parliament for ratification, in June 2023. Formal ratification is anticipated later this year. The LRP aims to “foster financial growth by improving economic sector financing in the rail market” and the development of the protocol is “an indication of how serious the nation is about rail reform”, states Cabinet.
Broad-based strain evident in the logistics sector – Ctrack index
The Ctrack Transport and Freight Index (CTFI) retreated even more throughout August, to an index level of 118.8, the most affordable since February, when it was at 116.7. This represents a 1.5% reduction. It is also the 3rd successive month-to-month contraction, and functions as verification of the continuous stress the domestic logistics sector is facing, states the CTFI report.
Balwin opens newly built dual carriageway in Pretoria
JSE-listed Balwin Properties inaugurated a newly constructed dual carriageway on October 6. It is hoped that the brand-new carriageway will minimize traffic congestion in the Hazeldean location in Pretoria East. According to location technology company Tom Tom’s 2022 Traffic Index, Pretoria ranks as South Africa’s a lot of overloaded city, with most locals spending an average of about 145 hours, or 6 days, in traffic jams each year, with the average time it requires to drive 10 km being 16 minutes..
Business, govt collaboration showing signs of success in addressing multiple crises
Business is working to add more than 10 GW of generation capacity to the electrical power system by the end of next year, which would efficiently end loadshedding in South Africa, Sasol president and CEO Fleetwood Grobler stated on the first day of the Joburg Indaba on October 4. Speaking in his additional capability as the chairperson of the Energy Council of South Africa, he informed delegates that various businesses were focusing on improving the energy availability factor and the performance of power energy Eskom, in addition to adding brand-new generation capacity and reforming the energy sector.
Zambia, DRC kick off major road project
The Presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia have actually broken ground at the Lualapa river bridge website, marking the start of the Kasomeno-Mwenda Toll Road (KMTR) job. The new route will lower the roundtrip for commercial transporters from Haut-Katanga’s growing mining sector to the port of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, by about 500 km.
Gauteng must play a key role in advancing smart mobility – Lesufi
Smart movement is an essential part of accomplishing the government’s Vision 2030 plan and Gauteng must play a leading function in this, especially with its transition towards a digital economy, Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi emphasised on October 2. He was delivering the keynote address on the 2nd day of the Smarter Mobility Africa conference, which is being held today in Johannesburg.
SA’s wind-energy potential is vast and not geographically constrained
Despite no wind energy projects being selected as favored bidders in the sixth quote window (BW6) of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), the South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) states there is considerable untapped wind potential in South Africa, with feasible wind resources even being recognized in locations previously ruled out a first option for wind energy project development. No wind tasks were picked in BW6, owing to grid capability in the traditional wind-resource-rich areas of the country having been accounted for as of 2022.
Opinion: Innovations in ecofriendly pavement solutions
In this article, University of KwaZulu-Natal Sustainable Transportation Research group head Professor Mohamed Mostafa discusses the growing use of sustainable products in road building tasks.
Minerals Council, NUM mourn death of 18 M&R employees killed in bus crash
The Minerals Council South Africa and trade union the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are mourning the death of those eliminated in a mishap in between a truck and a bus, near diamond miner De Beers’ Venetia mine, in Limpopo, on the afternoon of September 17. JSE-listed engineering and specialist group Murray & & Roberts (M & R) earlier verified the death of 18 of its staff members in the crash. The employees were being carried to diamond miner De Beers’ Venetia mine for the night shift when the mishap occurred.
At least 20 dead after Limpopo diamond mine bus collides with truck, burts into flames
At least 20 people died when a bus burst into flames after colliding with a truck head-on in Limpopo on Sunday afternoon.The accident occurred on the R572, and the bus is understood to have been travelling from Musina, transporting workers to the Venetia Diamond Mine near Alldays. Social media reports claimed the bus had collided head-on with a truck, but this has not been confirmed by the authorities.