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CSIR study ranks Gauteng as top logistics performer, Limpopo, N Cape the worst

 CSIR study ranks Gauteng as top logistics performer, Limpopo, N Cape the worst

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10th July 2013

By: Irma Venter

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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A new research study released by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Built Environment research unit on Wednesday revealed that Gauteng is the top performing province in terms of its logistics capability, followed by KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape.

Mpumalanga was ranked fourth, the Free State fifth, North West sixth, with the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Northern Cape taking up the bottom three spots.

Speaking at the Southern African Transport Conference in Pretoria, the unit's transport systems and operations research area’s Livison Mashoko noted that the study was still in its infancy, and would still be subject to peer review.

However, it was the hope that the research study could become a yearly event.

Mashoko noted that there was some correlation between the provinces’ logistics capability positioning and their contributions to national gross domestic product (GDP), especially in the top three provinces, which were an exact match, but not so lower down the rung.

While the Free State was ranked fifth in terms of logistics capability, it was only the country’s eight-largest contributor to GDP.

Underperforming to some degree, on that score, was the Eastern Cape, at number seven in logistics capability, but fourth in GDP contribution. The Limpopo was ranked eighth in logistics capability, but fifth in GDP contribution.

Mashoko said the study was relevant as it showed the different provinces’ contribution to South Africa’s logistic capability, which had been ranked as 23 out of 155 countries in a World Bank survey. He said it was now impossible to generalise about South Africa’s performance in this study and the study proved that all provinces did not make an equal contribution.

The factors used in measuring provincial logistics capability were infrastructure (such as roads), labour (such as skills availability and costs), location (such as crime and market access), services (such as financial services) and regulations (such as policy).

Mashoko said it was not certain to what extent provincial logistics capability influenced the economy of a province, or whether the provincial economy influenced logistics capability.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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