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Date
: 10/08/2006
Source: Ministry of Transport
Title: Radebe: Dube Tradeport and La Mercy Airport
Dube Tradeport and the Airport at La Mercy on runway, ready
to take off: J Radebe, Minister of Transport
I am pleased to announce the final rationalised structure for the
management and ownership of the integrated Dube Tradeport and the
airport at La Mercy.
The various engagements with all parties have travelled a long and
rocky road, but we have finalised a structure that represents both
certainty, cost rationalisation, ease of management and
implementation as well as correctly apportioning risk and
responsibility. I am also pleased to announce that the airport at
La Mercy will be operational, and the Durban International Airport
de-commissioned in the first quarter of 2010.
The existing processes that have been performed by either the
Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) and/or the Dube Tradeport
company will continue to the agreed time-schedules and within the
parameters that have been established to date.
ACSA shall exclusively build, operate and own the airport and the
passenger terminals in terms of the procurement that is currently
in process by the Dube Tradeport company, and to the existing
timelines agreed in that process. The key date in that process
being that all construction shall be completed by December 2009.
The airport will then be commissioned by the first quarter of 2010,
well in time for the 2010 World Cup.
The Dube Tradeport company shall exclusively own manage and develop
the trade port, the agrizones and the cyberport, including the
cargo handling terminals in the airport. The land will be
transferred to the Dube Tradeport company for development for its
own account. These facilities will be integrated into the existing
integrated logistics system planning processes occurring at
national, provincial and local level.
All developments that do not strictly fall within the narrow
definition of airport business or trade port business and all land
associated therewith, shall be owned and developed within a 50/50
joint venture between ACSA and the Dube Tradeport company. Wherever
possible, private sector involvement will be sought, with a
particular emphasis on black economic empowerment (BEE)
involvement.
Master planning for the entire precinct and the re-development of
the existing Durban International Airport site shall be done
jointly by the parties, the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Province and
Ethekwini Municipality under the leadership of the Department of
Transport.
This entire project must be integrated at all levels and to ensure
that, I have implemented a management structure that ensures that
the development will go according to the timelines and that
decision-making and oversight will be effective.
The decision-making structure will be the Political Committee, that
I shall chair, which will include representation from the
KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)province, Ethekwini municipality and the ACSA
Board. A Steering Committee that will be responsible for the
operational management, technical issues and project management of
the entire development as well as ensuring its delivery will be
chaired by the Director General of Transport and shall include
senior officials and executive management from ACSA, the KZN
province, Ethekwini municipality and the Dube Tradeport
company.
It is with great optimism and enthusiasm that I look forward to the
successful delivery of the Dube Tradeport and the international
airport. The benefits of this integrated logistics platform, the
commercial developments therein and the passenger facilities,
represents a new road that will bring prosperity to the area and
benefit to the country.
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