International Construction Turkey - October 2013 - page 28

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international
construction
Türkiye
Ekim
2013
English translation
Bölge raporu
Güney Afrika’dan olumlu işaretler
to build schools, hospitals, clinics, dams,
water and sanitation projects. The funds will
also go towards expanding electricity networks
and supplying electricity to over a million new
homes, building more courtrooms and prisons,
and construct better bus, commuter rail and
road links, according to Finance Minister Pravin
Gordhan. These projects will mostly be carried
out through municipalities and provincial
authorities
The state utilities also have ambitious projects
ahead. Transnet, for instance, wants to turn
the old Durban airport on the country’s east
coast into a new, dig-out container facility, at a
projected cost of US$10 billion.
Exploratory drilling on the site by Transnet
is already underway, and the first phase is
expected to be completed by 2019. By 2036,
it will have a 16-berth container terminal that
can handle 9.6 million standard twenty-foot
equivalent units in container handling capacity.
A project of this size and complexity will put
South African companies to the test, which will
offer opportunities for international companies,
says Andrew Robinson, head of the Admiralty
and Shipping department at Norton Rose
Fulbright South Africa.
“There are not many people here with experience
in this sort of thing,” said Mr Robinson. “It will
require special skills, such as understanding how
concrete and sea-water react to each other over
long term. It will also involve a huge amount of
excavation. So a lot of overseas companies are
watching with interest and some have already
begun setting up offices here.”
He added that foreign entrants to the South
African market will have a steep learning curve.
By law, all government contracts require the
winning bidder to include black equity partners.
While local companies have adapted their
operating models to include black participants,
first time entrants to the market will have
to figure their way through the process – a
daunting prospect for many.
Another hurdle is the glacial pace at which
these projects get signed off. “We hear a lot of
talk but as yet these projects are not coming to
fruition,” Ms Dlamini noted.
Funding is the biggest fence to be cleared,
but private sector asset managers holding
funds controlling US$460 billion – almost
five times the capital required – are in talks
with the government to act as banker to the
infrastructure programme.
The stunning success of the World Cup build,
which saw five new stadia and a mass transit
system put in place in the face of substantial
international and local scepticism, suggests
that once financing is in place, projects will go
ahead.
Eskom, the electricity utility, is in the early
stages of a long term process to double the
country’s power output. It needs to add nearly
40 MW to the country’s grid and plans five
new nuclear stations and numerous renewable
projects such as wind and solar farms. It is
presently struggling to complete the Medupi
power plant, the world’s largest dry-cooled coal
station, which is two years behind schedule.
Due to the lumbering progress on this, and a
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havaalanını, 10 milyar $ harcayarak yeni bir
konteynır terminaline dönüştürmeyi planlıyor.
Transnet, sahada keşif amaçlı sondaj
çalışmalarına şimdiden başladı ve ilk safhanın
2019’a kadar tamamlanması planlanıyor. 2036
yılına gelindiğinde, sahada 16 rıhtımlı bir
konteynır terminali bulunacak ve her yıl yirmi
foot büyüklüğündeki 9,6 milyon konteynır
işlemden geçirilebilecek.
Norton Rose Fulbright Güney Afrika
şirketinin deniz hukuku ve sevkıyat birimi
başkanı Andrew Robinson’a göre, bu ölçek ve
karmaşıklıktaki bir proje, Güney Afrikalı inşaat
şirketlerinin yeterliklerini sınayacak ve ayrıca
uluslararası firmalar için de fırsatlar doğuracak.
“Burada, bu ölçekte bir işle uğraşmaya yetecek
deneyime sahip pek fazla kişi yok. Betonla deniz
suyu arasında uzun vadede ortaya çıkacak ilişkinin
kavranması gibi kimi önemli beceriler gerekli.
Aynı zamanda, muazzam miktarda hafriyattan
söz ediyoruz. Dolayısıyla, pek çok yabancı firma,
projeyi ilgiyle takip ediyor ve hatta burada ofisler
açmaya başladı bile.”
Robinson, Güney Afrika pazarında giren
yabancı şirketlerin hızlı bir öğrenme sürecinden
geçmesi gerektiğini de ekliyor. Yasalar, kamu
ihalesini alanların hissedarları arasında siyahların
da bulunmasını zorunlu kılmakta. Yerli şirketler,
faaliyetlerini buna uygun şekilde düzenlemiş olsa
da, yapılması gerekenler yabancıların gözünü
korkutabilir.
Dlamini’ye göre, bu projelerde imzaların
atılması sürecinin kağnı hızında ilerlemesi de
bir diğer ayak bağı: “İş konuşmaya gelince
Yüklenici firma Geopile Africa, Northern
Cape’te bir güneş enerjisi projesi için gerekli
kazıkların yerleştirilmesinde Atlas Copco
HB 2000 kırıcılarından faydalanıyor. Güneş
enerjisi sektörü, Güney Afrika’da çok hızlı bir
gelişim sergiliyor
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