Limpopo Business 2017-18 edition
A unique guide to business and investment in Limpopo. Limpopo Business 2017/18 is the ninth edition of this highly successful publication that has, since its launch in 2007, established itself as the premier business and investment guide to the Limpopo Province. This edition of Limpopo Business is officially endorsed by the Office of the Premier of Limpopo. This book contains detailed insights into the plans of the Limpopo Economic Development Agency (LEDA) and the recently launched bus rapid transport system for the provincial capital, Leeto la Polokwane, together with a comprehensive register of all provincial government and municipal contact details. Investment news related to mining, telecommunications and tourism is carried in overviews of all the main economic sectors. To complement the extensive distribution of the print edition of the magazine, the publication is also available online at www.limpopobusiness.co.za.
A unique guide to business and investment in Limpopo.
Limpopo Business 2017/18 is the ninth edition of this highly successful publication that has, since its launch in 2007, established itself as the premier business and investment guide to the Limpopo Province. This edition of Limpopo Business is officially endorsed by the Office of the Premier of Limpopo.
This book contains detailed insights into the plans of the Limpopo Economic Development Agency (LEDA) and the recently launched bus rapid transport system for the provincial capital, Leeto la Polokwane, together with a comprehensive register of all provincial government and municipal contact details. Investment news related to mining, telecommunications and tourism is carried in overviews of all the main economic sectors.
To complement the extensive distribution of the print edition of the magazine, the publication is also available online at www.limpopobusiness.co.za.
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OVERVIEW<br />
deadlines for getting fruit to market<br />
in Europe are tight. Companies<br />
such as Freezerlines, Fast ‘n Fresh<br />
and Cold Chain have developed<br />
specialist techniques in getting<br />
these fruits to market and to<br />
port undamaged. Grindrod has a<br />
Perishable Cargo division which<br />
specialises in transporting cargo<br />
by air.<br />
The large national logistics<br />
company Value Group has only<br />
four major regional depots<br />
outside of Gauteng: in Cape<br />
Town, Durban, Nelspruit – and<br />
Polokwane. This illustrates the<br />
importance of the <strong>Limpopo</strong><br />
Province and its capital city in the<br />
national logistics chain.<br />
Imperial Logistics Southern<br />
Africa has 70 companies in its<br />
group structure, including Kobus<br />
Minaar Transport, a concern that<br />
began in Tzaneen transporting<br />
fruit and vegetables. Other active<br />
companies in <strong>Limpopo</strong> include<br />
Dawn Wing Logistics, Kargo, F&R<br />
Logistics and Aramex SA.<br />
Outside of Polokwane, the<br />
towns of Tzaneen, Lephalale,<br />
Burgersfort and Musina (a border<br />
post with Zimbabwe) are all important<br />
in the field of logistics.<br />
Roads Agency <strong>Limpopo</strong> (RAL),<br />
of which the provincial government<br />
is the sole shareholder,<br />
accounts for about a third of<br />
the budget of the <strong>Limpopo</strong><br />
Department of Public Works,<br />
Roads and Infrastructure.<br />
The provincial government<br />
has a scheme whereby pupils in<br />
rural areas up to 10km away from<br />
schools are provided with bicycles.<br />
The province’s scholar transport<br />
network will be expanded in<br />
the course of <strong>2017</strong> to 255 schools.<br />
Great North Transport falls under the <strong>Limpopo</strong> Economic<br />
Development Agency. The company has more than 500 buses, covers<br />
about 37.6-million kilometres every year on 279 routes, employs more<br />
than 1 200 people and transports 37.6-million passengers.<br />
Air<br />
The Polokwane International Airport (PIA) is wholly owned by the<br />
provincial government and run by the Gateway Airport Authority Ltd<br />
(GAAL), an agency of the <strong>Limpopo</strong> Department of Roads and Transport.<br />
It has the potential to be an important regional cargo airport.<br />
SA Airlink caters mainly to the business market and offers 21 flights<br />
to Johannesburg six days a week. The airline also provides links between<br />
Phalaborwa and Johannesburg, and between Hoedspruit and<br />
Johannesburg and Cape Town.<br />
Many game reserves have airstrips, and regional airports in the<br />
eastern part of the province provide easy access to the Kruger National<br />
Park. Hoedspruit Airport is situated within an airforce base and has the<br />
second-longest runway in South Africa, long enough to serve as an<br />
emergency landing area for space shuttles. The airport is served by SA<br />
Express. Phalaborwa’s airport is notable for its African-themed terminal<br />
which includes a zebra-patterned floor. Musina, near the border with<br />
Zimbabwe in the north, hosts the province’s other regional airport.<br />
ONLINE RESOURCES<br />
Gateway Airport Authority <strong>Limpopo</strong>: www.gaal.co.za<br />
Hoedspruit Airport: www.eastgateairport.co.za<br />
<strong>Limpopo</strong> Department of Transport: www.ldot.gov.za<br />
<strong>Limpopo</strong> Economic Development Agency (LEDA): www.lieda.co.za<br />
Railroad Association of South Africa: www.rra.co.za<br />
Roads Agency <strong>Limpopo</strong>: www.ral.co.za<br />
South African National Roads Agency Limited: www.sanral.co.za<br />
Transnet Freight Rail: www.transnet.net<br />
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