Ports, Rail
and Trade Zones
“We expect planning for phase two to
be finalised by 2015. Together, both
phases are likely to see several billion in
investment. South Korean industrial giant
Samsung is one the major companies to
invest in the zone.
Hamish
Erskine,
Dube
TradePort’s
TradeZone executive, says phase two
would be double the size of the first phase
and together the zone would be 77ha in
extent.
“Phase one is virtually accounted for and
represents a mix of logistics and manufacturing industries. Phase two will also have
logistics to support the growth of Dube
TradePort’s cargo terminal, but would
focus on more high value manufacturing
such as electronics. There is already huge
demand for industrial space in phase two
from private sector companies, which has
brought the development of the phase
forward by as much as a year,” he says.
Lionel October, director general of the dti says Dube TradePort would develop faster as a new SEZ. This was because a lot of
the work had already been done when the government established it as one of the major catalytic developments to boost the
provincial economy.