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Navigating the bottlenecks of South Africa’s rail network and ports

Date Uploaded: March 20 2024 10:00


South Africa’s freight rail network is a crucial part of the country’s economic infrastructure but is constrained by a lack of maintenance and investment, poor coordination between stakeholders, inadequate planning, and security concerns, to name a few. It creates a logistical bottleneck that affects confidence, disrupts supply chains, and increases the cost of doing business. In this Research Note, we unpack some of these issues as Transnet tries to correct its course.