The Industrial Development Corporation IDC has issued a request for proposals for the appointment of a service provider to conduct a comprehensive detailed line-scanning survey on the 1 404 km rail container corridor between City Deep in Gauteng and the Port of Durban.
The call, issued on behalf of Infrastructure South Africa ISA, aims to find private-sector specialists to audit the rail corridors state of disrepair to asses where to prioritise investments.
IDC and ISA have identified the corridor as the lifeblood of both the Durban and Gauteng economy as Transnet seeks to shift freight from roads, which currently move around 85 of goods across the country.
