South Africa’s government plans to announce a set of measures to help improve the nation’s inefficient rail and port infrastructure cited by major exporters as a constraint on their businesses.
Chief executive officers from the nation’s mining, farming, automotive and other industries presented proposals on how to improve the network’s efficiency at a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, the presidency said in a statement on Thursday. The talks follow a meeting between Ramaphosa and the board of state-owned rail and port operator Transnet SOC Ltd. last month, when he directed the company to implement reforms to end the nation’s logistics crisis.