Transnet has issued a request for proposals (RFP) inviting private logistics companies to design, build, operate, maintain and eventually hand over its proposed inland container terminal in Tambo Springs, East of Johannesburg.
The 20-year concession would be Transnet’s biggest private sector participation project to date and would be located in Ekurhuleni along the N3 motorway and near to the Johannesburg-to-Durban rail corridor.
The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2016, and Transnet expects to award the contract in the last quarter of the company’s financial year, which ends on March 31, 2017.
The project would include the development of terminal infrastructure, including an arrival and departure yard for cargo trains, and the installation of terminal equipment. It will include a stacking area, warehousing space, a distribution centre and inland Reefer facilities.
Transnet Freight Rail would still be responsible for the operation of the arrival-and-departure yard, but the operator would be responsible for loading and offloading of containers and marketing of the facility.
The terminal is expected to be in operation by 2019 and will have an initial capacity of 144 000 TEUs a year, with an option to increase its capacity to 560 000 TEUs.
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