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Thin-layer asphalt technology used on bypass
3rd September 2003 Local roads and reconstruction company, Murray & Roberts Roads and Earthworks, has given a section of the N1 north of Polokwane and the R71 eastern bypass a facelift using thin-layer hot-mix asphalt (HMA) technology. →
$232m project to rehabilitate Kenya’s transport network
By: Martin Czernowalow 3rd September 2003 A $232-million project has been proposed by Kenya to rehabilitate its transport network, primarily to facilitate trade and improve market access. →
New cross-border transport board to be set up
By: laurian clemence 2nd September 2003 Acting Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe has announced that the department is seeking new board members for 2004 for the Cross-Border Road Transport Agency. →
Local fleet management system finds much use abroad
By: renay de 29th August 2003 A few years ago, managing large fleets was an almost impossible task, as well as a costly operation. →
SA-made automated aluminium system to be promoted in Europe
By: renay de 29th August 2003 Four years ago, Articulated Structures developed the first automated aluminium structure of its kind, designed specifically to fit small bakkies, trailers and trucks of up to 12 m in length. →
Gauteng declares war on overloading
By: renay de 29th August 2003 South Africa relies on road transportation to convey about 80% of its freight, and its current limit of gross vehicle mass is 56 tons. →
Keeping tabs on drivers
29th August 2003 Drive Report is empowering motorists and other road-users to make a difference in the way buses and heavy vehicles are being driven. →
Bus association questions weighing procedures
By: renay de 29th August 2003 Southern African Bus Operators Association (Saboa) executive manager Eric Cornelius has expressed concern regarding the procedure of weighing buses at weigh-bridges throughout the country. →
Trailer manufacturers’ merger proves successful
29th August 2003 At the end of 2001, two of the largest trailer manufacturing companies in the country, South Africa Truck Bodies and Henred Fruehauf, merged to form a new company with combined experience of 72 years. →
Composite gear casing innovation wins acceptance
By: Martin Zhuwakinyu 29th August 2003 A Johannesburg-based black economic-empowerment (BEE) engineering firm reports that a composite traction motor gear casing for locomotives it developed and started testing in mid-2000 has been well received by the market. →
Moz to upgrade railway system
By: Martin Czernowalow 29th August 2003 The government of Mozambique is planning a project to create cost-effective and efficient transport available for freight and passenger traffic in the central region of the country and the neighbouring countries of Malawi and Zimbabwe. →
Testing central to road-freight sector’s Aids plan
By: Deborah Spicer 29th August 2003 An important part of the road-freight industry’s HIV/Aids strategy will be to determine how many workers in the industry are HIV positive. →
DPE prepares to sell two Transnet units
By: laurian clemence 27th August 2003 South Africa’s largest transport utility, Transnet, and the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) are seeking a transaction advisor for the restructuring of its bus subsidiary, Autopax. →
Kei rail refurb project advances
27th August 2003 The Minister of Public Enterprises and acting Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe said that significant progress had been made in the Kei Rail refurbishment project. →
Private participation in Transnet unavoidable - Khumalo
By: Terence Creamer 27th August 2003 State-owned transport and logistics group Transnet has submitted a ‘restructuring plan’ to the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), which it hopes will open the way for a realignment of the corporation, and includes the option for greater private-sector participation in key... →
Unilever looks for speedy growth in Africa
27th August 2003 Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant Unilever said yesterday it hopes to double its annual turnover in Africa by 2007, growing sales at three times the target set for its global business overall. →
Auto group’s African exports rise strongly
25th August 2003 Automotive firm Nissan South Africa reported last week that vehicle exports to Africa rose nearly 46% in the first seven months of this year, compared to the same period of 2002, therefore set to reach its total export target of 6 500 units for the whole of 2003 compared to 5 778 units last year. →
KZN launches freight databank to help planning
25th August 2003 A Freight Transport Databank has been set up by the KwaZulu-Natal transport department, which is designed to play an important role in formulating policies, plans and programmes for the freight sector. →
Cape chamber adds its voice to big transport debate
By: Jill Stanford 22nd August 2003 THE Cape Town Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry is adding its voice to the great Cape transport debate (see Engineering News August 1, 2003). →
R440m upgrade for home of Freedom Charter
By: nkolola halwindi 22nd August 2003 With a R440-million investment, the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) is busy with phase one of the redevelopment of Kliptown, south-west of Johannesburg. →
Sept deadline for Gautrain bids
By: Zonika Botha 22nd August 2003 The submission date for the request for proposals from the two pre-qualified consortia in the R7-billion, 80-km Gautrain rapid-rail project is scheduled for the end of September, some two months later than originally planned. →
Truck and bus maker ups training investment
By: nkolola halwindi 15th August 2003 Subsidiary of Germany firm MAN Nutzufarhrzeuge, MAN Truck and Bus South Africa has invested an additional R1-million to upgrade its R8-million Training Academy in Isando. →
Recapitalisation tantamount to recognition for taxi industry
By: katharine mckenzie 15th August 2003 For many of us the minibus taxis on the country’s roads are a source of constant irritation. →
At last, SA moves to arrest logistics crisis
By: Terence Creamer 15th August 2003 It is more than a little disingenuous for government to be claiming that it is purely as a result of South Africa’s extraordinary export performance that there is now a need to capitalise the country’s economic infrastructure. →
MAN profit at top of forecasts as trucks recover
14th August 2003 German industrial group MAN posted quarterly profits at the upper end of expectations yesterday and reiterated its commitment to the core trucks business that put the shine on its results. →
SA tyre king eyes DRC, Angola
By: laurian clemence 8th August 2003 South Africa’s predominant tyre distributor, Maxiprest, announced at a conference in Inanda that its revenue growth had increased by 19,2% from R668 987 at June 30, 2002, to R796 672 at the six months ended June 30, 2003. →
Transnet seeks adviser for sale of road division
By: laurian clemence 8th August 2003 South African transport utility Transnet has invited submissions of proposal for the role of transaction advisor in the restructuring of its road-freight division, Freightdynamics. →
The Great Cape Transport Debate
By: Jill Stanford 4th August 2003 While commuters in the Western Cape paint a bleak picture of public transport, a debate is simmering between the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), provincial and local government and business over whether a rapid-bus transit system, which has been proposed as the first phase of a... →
State set to inject capital into State Enterprises to boost logistics performance
By: Terence Creamer 4th August 2003 The South African government – criticised for nearly a decade for under-investing in road, rail and harbour infrastructure – is putting the final touches to a far-reaching logistic-improvement programme designed to keep pace with export-led demand. →
The Great Cape Transport Debate
By: Jill Stanford 1st August 2003 While commuters in the Western Cape paint a bleak picture of public transport, a debate is simmering between the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), provincial and local government and business over whether a rapid-bus transit system, which has been proposed as the first phase of a... →
SA’s essential-oils industry gains momentum
By: nkolola halwindi 1st August 2003 There is significant scope for South Africa to produce a wide range of quality organic and conventional essential oils, the head of a newly-privatised company set up to pursue commercial opportunities in this area tells Engineering News. →
Cooperative governance is needed to tackle transport problems
By: katharine mckenzie 1st August 2003 When South Africa’s Constitution-makers crafted the new Constitution, adopted in 1996, they included a South African innovation: a chapter on ‘co-operative government’, which aims to ensure good relations between South Africa’s three spheres of government, but also to... →
South Africa’s Zebra battery reincarnated by Swiss firm
By: Martin Zhuwakinyu 1st August 2003 A local company has started using Swiss-made sodium-nickel chloride batteries – the development of which started in South Africa in the mid-1970s – to power part of its electric-vehicle fleet. →
SA, India, Brazil set up G3 to foster South–South links
By: Keith Campbell 1st August 2003 Development of the “Group of Three” (SA, Brazil, India) could be of long-term importance to local industries, particularly those in the aerospace, defence, and other high-technology fields. →
First SA Corollas land in Australia
1st August 2003 The first shipment of South African built Toyota Corollas arrived in Australia early in April. →
PC control implemented for Polo engine production
1st August 2003 Over the last five years nearly all the assembly lines in the engine assembly area at the Volkswagen factory at Uitenhage, in the Eastern Cape, have been converted on the basis of personal computer (PC) based control technology from Beckhoff. →
Industry in grips of economic downturn, says economist
By: candice haase 1st August 2003 The motor industry in Europe and North America is in a very sad way at the moment, because of the cyclical downturn of these economies, explains Econometrix senior economist Tony Twine. →
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