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New director for Smart Mobility Advisory Group

ROYAL HASKONINGDHV, an independent,
international engineering and project management With over 14 years of industry and leadership
consultancy, has appointed Bongani Mthombeni-Möller experience, Bongani draws her expertise from her
as Director of its Smart Mobility Advisory Group for direct involvement in the engineering sector at both
southern Africa. management and project level. She will be responsible
for leading business development across the public and
Her appointment is in line private transport and maritime sectors, and work with
with the company’s strategic focus a team of professionals to combine expertise in active
on enhancing and improving the travel, smart mobility, sustainable transport planning,
way South Africans engage with and development planning and engineering.
the country’s public transport
systems and networks, including “We need to harness digital technology and data to
road, rail and maritime. “The create efficiencies, optimise performance and enhance
transport industry is on a journey sustainability of transport and mobility networks. This
st
towards digitalisation and global will help our clients intelligently address 21 century
mobility networks are under mobility challenges and shape the sustainable transport
pressure to meet demands for networks of tomorrow,” says Mthombeni-Möller.
low emission transport options, “Constraints over costs and timings add to South Africa’s
Bongani Mthombeni- clean air zones and new modes challenge. Improving reliability, performance and service
Möller, Director of Royal of transport and technology. models plays a key role, as does improved network
HaskoningDHV’s Smart Sustainable transport can enhance capacity and adequate asset management.”
Mobility Advisory Group for society, but we need fresh
southern Africa. thinking and new approaches if Bongani holds a master’s degree in engineering
we are to keep our cities and ports from the University of Cape Town and is currently the
accessible without compromising residents’ quality of Chairperson of the University of Cape Town’s Civil
life or the environment,” says Bonga Ntuli, Director for Engineering Advisory Board and Chairperson and Non-
Infrastructure at Royal HaskoningDHV. Executive Director at Prosmart Training Solutions. •

Traxtion poised to lead freight rail sector

WITH A commitment from successful operations on the
President Cyril Ramaphosa to open 1,860km Tanzania-Zambia Rail
South Africa’s rail network to third- Authority (TAZARA) railway line
party freight operators, Africa’s through the Calabash joint venture
largest private rail freight operator, are proof not only that the South
Traxtion, is poised to lead the way. African Government is on the right
With current projects operating track with its rail reform agenda,
successfully in South Africa and but also that Traxtion is set up
across Africa, the rail freight perfectly to upscale its operations
company is assessing its options for for the much larger South African
raising significant capital in advance of the introduction freight opportunity. A communique issued by TAZARA
of structural reform in South Africa to ensure that a said the addition of 262,140 metric tons moved by
meaningful number of trainsets are introduced into the Calabash Freight has increased the volume of rail freight
country. by 26.6 percent from the previous financial year. This,
the authority said, resulted in a significant increase in
James Holley, Traxtion CEO, says his company’s revenue from both freight and access fees paid.

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