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overall platform on which more focused attention can be placed. From a logistics viewpoint,too, the air platform for freight and logistics is also inadequate, and attention in this regardis inherent in the diagram in Figure. C.1.1Any cogent, sensible freight and logistics strategy for the GCR requires a mindset that allfreight and logistics is a single industry and the movement of freight is a single operationspread across the whole industry.Cost-effective consumption is reliant on the consolidation of people into tightly-knit spatialmarkets. Much of the energy efficiency with which Gauteng manufactures and exportsgoods from the city region, or imports goods into the city region, is dependent on theefficiency of the freight and logistics system for the city region concerned.The GCR has not, to date, had a cogent freight and logistics strategy and there is no singleagency tasked with developing such a strategy:This is the way the world is moving and this is how the GCR needs to move:• If it is to be locally and globally competitive;• If it is to be energy efficient;• If it is to be cost effective; and• Transnet undertakes planning along these lines simply because it happens to be in thebusiness;• Various other agencies handle planning in this regard in partial, uncoordinated wayssimply because they are in charge, for example, of a certain level of road planning;and• If it is to provide a superior and attractive lifestyle.These limitations bedevil the whole of South Africa, but the advantage that the GCR hasis that it is itself the hub of the entire subcontinent and can therefore re-structure its freightand logistics system without necessarily having to wait for change in the wider system.Indeed, the GCR can, and must, be a catalyst and the basis for change nationally.• Several private and public initiatives to develop inland ports or logistics hubs existand are simply viewed as development opportunities rather than part of an overallstrategy.The way the world is moving:• Road serves short-haul;ANNEXURE C: POLICY PERSPECTIVESFreight and logistics are often not considered as a single industry requiring a single coordinatedstrategy:• Rail freight is regarded as one particular endeavour;• Road freight is regarded as another;• The two are in competition with one another; and• Capturing market share by one or the other is more important than cost, energyand service efficiency.• Rail serves long-haul;• The two are one integrated system;• Road brings goods to regional hubs of consolidation and distributes from these;• Rail moves consolidated freight between hubs and ports;• Hubs are multi-modal (principally rail, road and, to a lesser extent, air);• Regional hubs are on the fringes of, or well beyond the city limits;159 GAUTENG SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 2011 GAUTENG GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY