image: trucks waiting at South Africa – Mozambique Border
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The Institutional Prerequisite for Rail Reform in South Africa: A Credible Regulatory Capacity and Public Interest
By: David Taylor, CEO TAYLORAIL
It’s a familiar day in South Africa’s logistics environment. The lines of trucks at key border crossings and ports quietly grow with yet another load sliding into the eternal wait. Congestion in these ports now mean that truck owners turn their trucks in 7 days instead of one. That’s one invoice raised for transport costs instead of seven over that time.
The over-worked Truck drivers, far away from home, are serviced by an informal market of goods and services, driven by small-scale entrepreneurs. These lines of trucks, often over 20km long precede most points of entry and exit into South Africa, are utilised by the lucky ones, the commodities and points of economic output that can afford to move goods by truck to the international market, with a hope of making the next stack, or minimising demurrage, of selling our prized minerals to the international market and securing foreign income for our economy, for the companies that continue to provide jobs, supply contracts, economic return and much needed tax revenue.
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