Private-sector interest in South Africas third-party rail-slot allocation process serves as confirmation of the rail-freight turnaround strategies deployed by Department of Transport DoT minister, Barbara Creecy, logistics executive Dr Juanita Maree has said.
Tied into week-on-week waterside throughput improvements at the countrys ports, it adds to a growing narrative that services at the countrys once-ailing state-owned entity SOE for logistics, Transnet, may finally have turned a corner.
But Maree, who heads up the South African Association of Freight Forwarders, said we must proceed with caution and clarity of purpose, not forgetting what were recovering from.