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The State-owned Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has issued a request for information (RFI) for the supply of desalinated water for its eight commercial seaports.
The RFI, the TNPA says, is intended to gauge market appetite to design, develop, finance, operate, maintain and transfer water desalination plants at the ports of Cape Town, Durban, East London, Mossel Bay, Ngqura, Port Elizabeth, Richards Bay and Saldanha.
The ports consume about six-million kilolitres (KL) of municipal water yearly for operations at an average monthly rate of almost 500 000 KL.
The RFI documents can be accessed from the National Treasury’s e-tender publication portal as well as the Transnet website and responses should be submitted by no later than 12:00 on October 7, 2022.
“With the increase in water scarcity and climate uncertainty, there is a need for TNPA to improve water resilience.
“A sustainable water source will ensure all our commercial seaports have alternative water options for both operations and emergency purposes,” TNPA project manager Mishka Prinsloo said in a statement.