INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

continue to find new ways to solve industry problems and remain globally competitive. Economic growth and job creation is only sustainable if it is competitive, and although innovation increases competitiveness, it is only sustainable and effective when it is collaborative. So, the SBIDZ Innovation Campus is a substantial value add to the SBIDZ, our stakeholders, and the energy and maritime industry at large.

To make it work, we shall need active involvement from government, industry, academia and the community in an ongoing collaboration and co-creation approach.

To date, we have attracted more than R21-billion worth of private investments into the zone, with a total of 2 900 jobs created over the past five years. During the 2020/21 financial year, we completed construction on the first investment project – a specialised corrosion protection facility.

We are currently in the process of constructing an additional two investment projects involving specialised manufacturing and fabrication, as well as partial assembly and manufacturing of components which are currently being imported into South Africa.

In addition, we completed construction on the Access Complex Building – a 5ha state-of-the-art commercial office facility that started taking in tenants in September 2020.

The SBIDZ has a robust investor pipeline that continues to grow in manufacturing and export facilities, and new-build port infrastructure. Several private investors have undertaken, at their own cost, bankable feasibility studies that demonstrate demand for vessel fabrication, maintenance, recycling and equipment servicing.

For example, the Saldehco Offshore Supply Base in the Port of Saldanha Bay is an investment that has made good progress. Construction of the facility is currently underway. The facility will offer internationally competitive services to vessels passing along our coastline, and projects looking to undertake surveys, exploration and production activity on the West African Coastal Area.

The common-user Project Leasing Facility (PLF) is another development by the SBIDZ that already delivers value in assisting with strategic government energy projects and meeting a business need.

The 12ha facility accommodates projects with a duration shorter than 24 months and assists logistics companies and project managers with an easy-to-access facility near the port infrastructure when handling equipment and goods in or out of the port and zone.

The PLF currently provides temporary storage to tenants for wind blades, nacelles and tower sections to support the national Renewable Energy IPP Programme (REIPPP). We expect more projects related to REIPPP to be rolled out in 2021.

Both facilities support investment in the SBIDZ and have received significant backing from the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC).

For the immediate future our focus will be: • achieving commercial self-sustainability to increase the value it will create for shareholders and stakeholders of the

Zone • investing in and establish catalytic infrastructure and facilities that will unlock local and regional productivity and employment • improving the readiness of the local community and industry to leverage

Zone-related opportunities that will result in competitive local and regional value chains for the marine and energy services industry being built • deepening and expanding our partnerships with business, government and society that ensures the SBIDZ remains the definition of an inclusive and transformative strategy. Two strategic projects to actively de-risk, enable and create the conditions for continued and increased investment into the Zone have commenced.

First, in partnership with the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), we have embarked on a Marine Infrastructure Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) as the prefeasibility study to bring in additional quaysides into the Port. This is to be completed soon. The study will assess the various options available in terms of marine infrastructure development at the Port of Saldanha against cost, technical demands, and market demand from the marine services sector. This infrastructure will provide sorely needed capacity for vessel builders, repairers, recyclers, equipment manufacturers, and many more – essentially all activities in the marine manufacturing and maintenance space. Concurrently, and as a complementary initiative to the CBA, the SBIDZ-LC has initiated the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the marine infrastructure, which aims to be completed by the second quarter of 2022. This EIA aims to secure the relevant environmental authorisations required to de-risk investment into the marine infrastructure when it goes out to market eventually.

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Siwela Samandlovu General Trading is a black-owned construction company, formed in 2008, that has successfully operated in KwaZulu-Natal for the past 11 years, working on small- and large-scale construction projects, repair and alteration projects, focusing on residential contracting and plant hire.

Siwela Samandlovu General Trading offers comprehensive services designed to allow the company to do whatever it takes to fi nish a project. Services such as building material supply to construction site, house plans, remodelling and alterations, site preparation and clearance, carpentry, cement foundations, painting and plumbing. The company has introduced the fi eld of consulting and project managers in building and civil services.

Comply with JBCC, ISO certifi cates and SABS

• Ensure all building materials comply with SABS • Work with other service providers and local residents on sites • Provide TLB, tipper trucks, ready mix trucks • Provide brick making equipment to minimise building costs and affordable construction materials • Work with project managers and superintendents to assume the delivery of goods • Provide a schedule showing all material supplied • Provide storage for materials to ensure that the goods are not affected by natural disaster • Consult with stakeholders weekly for material shortage and acquisition • Provide a temporal utility like water tanks, material storage, mobile toilets and bobcats • General building, civil projects • Supply of sand, road building lime and aggregates

With the company’s mutually beneficial relationship with King Shaka International Airport – and the new urban development, Durban Aerotropolis, underway – the Dube Tradeport SEZ has the potential to become a world-class industrial and commercial precinct. Here is how they plan to achieve this over the next 50 years…

Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone was established as a catalyst for economic development, using a combination of its unique location – over 3 000 hectares of greenfield developable land – with King Shaka International Airport at its core. Its close proximity to the seaports of Durban and Richards Bay as well as its connectivity to a wide-reaching rail and road network, is the perfect setup to drive the implementation of a number of integrated infrastructure projects and business operations, which come together to create a world-class industrial and commercial precinct.

Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone’s infrastructure and business operations include: • Dube TradeZone: A light industrial precinct for electronics, pharmaceutical and aerospace manufacturing, as well as logistics and distribution firms; (Designated Special Economic Zone). • Dube Cargo Terminal: A state-of-the-art cargo handling facility, linked to

King Shaka International Airport’s airside operations (DUR). • Dube AgriZone: An integrated agricultural precinct (Designated Special Economic

Zone). • Dube City: A business, commercial and hospitality precinct. • Dube iConnect: A cutting-edge telecommunications provider and a premier cloud computing service provider.

In the last ten years, the organisation has worked to develop its globally integrated manufacturing and logistics infrastructure, which has grown to support a range of airport-related activities, including cargo operations, warehousing, agricultural production and processing, as well as commercial office real-estate.

Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone CEO, Mr Hamish Erskine, notes, “Dube TradePort continues to enjoy a fruitful and mutually beneficial relationship with King Shaka International Airport on several critical projects that are aimed at driving the economic development of the province of KwaZulu-Natal. These include cargo and property development as well as air services.

“King Shaka International Airport is one of the central resources that Dube TradePort is building upon to develop a globally competitive air logistics platform, which seamlessly integrates inter-modal sea, rail and road infrastructure. Through this we aim to propel the expansion of export-orientated manufacturing within Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone.”

As of Q1, 2021, work has begun in earnest to develop the second phase of the Dube TradeZone light manufacturing precinct, with bulk services being installed in the levelled 38-hectare site. A major milestone for the organisation, the land has been set aside for a medical and pharmaceutical cluster, an electronics cluster as well as general manufacturing.

The entire Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone is made up of over 3 000 hectares, which will be developed over the next 50 years.

Some of the key sectors that will be provided for during that period will include: • Aerospace and aviation-linked manufacturing and related services • Agriculture and agro-processing, including horticulture, aquaculture and floriculture • Electronics manufacturing and assembly • Medical and pharmaceutical production and distribution • Clothing and textiles • Automotive component manufacturing. This will be done following market demands at the time, however, agro-processing is set to be allocated space within the development of the second phase of the 30 hectares Dube AgriZone 2 development, which is anticipated to commence construction in the fourth quarter of 2021.