The financing should be secured and the business model completed by the third quarter of this year for an industrial development park, incorporating a cargo hub, to be built next to the Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (KMIA).
AVENG, SA's largest construction group, warned yesterday that if government failed to award the construction contract for the Gautrain high-speed rail link by next month, it would be "very difficult" to meet the 2010 deadline it has set.
One of the biggest problems facing the South African construction industry is a 'massive' shortage of labour skills
For companies involved in the design and construction of airports, there are planned projects and new investments to upgrade airports in the region
Aveng CEO Carl Grim says he expects an upswing in government capital expenditure before the end of this year as SA gears up for the 2010 Soccer World Cup
To improve efficiency and capacity, Cabinet last year agreed to restructure the local electricity industry, tasking EDI Holdings to spearhead the project.
Twenty-five investment projects worth R29bn were approved under government’s strategic investment projects incentive programme between April 2002 and March last year, according to a report tabled in Parliament this week.

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