SA’s bulk export volumes rose 5.4% year on year (y/y) to 13.2-million tons (Mt) in August, bringing the increase in the first eight months of 2015 to 11.7% y/y, data from the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) showed on Monday. Bulk...
Tackling South Africa’s water challenges will take a lot of hard work, courage, and the ability to think out of the box. It is for this reason that South Africa’s national funding agency for water research and development, the Water Research...
The City of Cape Town’s drive to increase the turnaround times of the building application process by improving its existing systems is yielding positive results. Between May and July 2015 the City has consistently surpassed the performance...
The Kariba Dam drew worldwide attention in the last part of 2014 when it emerged that the dam was facing a possible collapse. In December 2014 the critical period was defined as “the next three years”, while the massive rehabilitation...
After reporting a strong profit in the first half of its financial year thanks to lower oil prices, the entry of two competitors in the second half had a reversal effect, Comair [JSE:COM] said on Monday. The company’s results for the...
French group Total plans to build a fuel terminal in Nacala, in Mozambique’s Nampula province. A public presentation of the environmental impact took place a few days ago, according to Mozambican newspaper Notícias. The project, to be built on a...
Engen has launched a Beira terminal in Mozambique. The company says the new terminal is aimed at strategically boosting security of fuel supply and strengthening its supply chain in the region. Measuring 24 000m³, the terminal supplies petrol,...
An Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), with an investment of over R260 million, will be launched on Friday at the OR Tambo International Airport. Trade and Industry (dti) Deputy Minister Mzwandile Masina and Gauteng MEC for Economic Development,...
President Jacob Zuma will today inform the public on progress made in the National Infrastructure Plan. This, after meeting with the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission Council (PICC), which comprises ministers, premiers and...
