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.
Media Contact:
Collen Msibi
Cell: 082 414 5279
Issued by
Ministry of Transport
10 August 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.
Media Contact:
Collen Msibi
Cell: 082 414 5279
Issued by
Ministry of Transport
10 August 2006
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