Dube TradePort - Nov 2019

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Dube TradePort Is the King of SEZs PRODUCTION: Timothy Reeder

A world-class development, Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone (SEZ) offers globally integrated logistics and manufacturing infrastructure and support for the full extent of airport-related activities. President Cyril Ramaphosa has heralded South Africa’s SEZs as key to the country’s international investment drive, and with a 50-year masterplan behind it this Aerotropolis is gaining significant ground. www.enterprise-africa.net / 3

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Owned by the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government, Dube TradePort is the province’s flagship infrastructural development and its chief priority. Its importance is in large part due to its role in supporting South Africa’s National Infrastructure Plan, an initiative which, “intends to transform South Africa’s economic landscape while simultaneously creating significant numbers of new jobs, and to strengthen the delivery of basic services.”

Uniquely and strategically located on the east coast of South Africa, at the intersection of local and global intermodal transport routes, Dube TradePort is linked to two of Africa’s major seaports and major national roads, and also home to King Shaka International Airport. This allows it to take care of cargo operations,

warehousing and agriculture, while presenting a suite of commercial realestate for office, retail and hospitality.

“The benefits offered to businesses operating within the Special Economic Zone are geared towards promoting business growth, revenue generation, employment creation, the export of value-added commodities and the attraction of both foreign and local investment,” says Dube Tradeport, “all enhancing South Africa’s manufacturing and export capabilities.”

MASTERPLAN Dube TradePort has grown into one the top ten investment opportunities in South Africa. Located within a developing ‘aerotropolis’ around King Shaka International Airport and the burgeoning KZN North Coast, it is rapidly emerging as a vital global

supply link and trade centre for KwaZulu-Natal. “Dube TradePort is a 50-year master-planned airfreight and passenger hub,” says the entity of its lofty aims.

Made up of five business zones, the SEZ is arguably dominated by Dube TradeZone, a prime, fully-serviced industrial precinct of 77 hectares and set to grow to 300 ha. It is equipped for electronics, pharmaceuticals and aerospace manufacturing, assembling and distribution.

Dube Cargo Terminal, meanwhile, provides a state-of-the-art cargo handling facility with digital tracking, and Dube AgriZone, an advanced agricultural precinct, possesses worldclass facilities and technical support for horticultural products through an efficient supply chain. Dube City showcases a 12-hectare premium

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// WE AIM TO BE THE LEADING GLOBAL MANUFACTURING AND AIR LOGISTICS PLATFORM IN SOUTHERN AFRICA // business and hospitality precinct, while Dube iConnect is a cutting-edge telecommunications platform and premier cloud service provider to the Dube TradePort precinct.

“We aim to be the leading global manufacturing and air logistics platform in Southern Africa, seamlessly integrated with inter-modal road, rail and port infrastructure,” is Dube TradePort’s

overarching plan. “Our mission is to enable the development of an aerotropolis to attract and sustain investment through the creation and operation of a special economic zone and to grow business and trade through enabling new regional and international air services.”

The ground-breaking, 50-year Durban Aerotropolis Master Plan, designed to create an all new and extensive urban environment around King Shaka International Airport, was unveiled in September. “This is a purpose-built airport city,” Ms Nomusa Dube-Ncube, Provincial MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs, pronounced, “which aims to make KwaZulu-Natal more economically efficient, sustainable and attractive to investment.”

MARA PHONE PLANT President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke of the importance of SEZs to South Africa’s overall push for international investment at the opening of the Mara Group’s hi-tech smartphone manufacturing plant last month.

Lauding the investment in Dube TradePort, Ramaphosa said it was a milestone in SA’s drive to be a producer of advanced goods.

“Dube TradePort provides valuable insight into how a SEZ should work in real life,” he effused. “It enables us to appreciate the immense transformative potential of these zones for our economy. SEZs are important instruments to attract both domestic and international investment, building targeted industrial capabilities and establishing new industrial hubs.

“We are fortunate that we have

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established a SEZ here in an existing metro, where all the facilities and capabilities are in place, and it is here that Mara has found fertile ground to establish this factory.”

Ramaphosa went on to describe the R3.2 billion in private sector investment and 12,000 job opportunities Dube TradePort had created in its first phase; this figure does not even include the Mara

Group’s R1.5 billion investment into SA’s first fully-fledged smartphone manufacturing plant.

Such is the integral role of SEZs in the South African economy that they are now to be found in provinces across the country. Many of these are longer established, such as Coega SEZ in Port Elizabeth, as well as the East London and Richards Bay SEZs. Together with Dube TradePort, other

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newer SEZs include Atlantis and Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape, and potential abounds for more like the long-planned site near OR Tambo International Airport.

Mara Phones South Africa within Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone will employ almost 1500 people, and has the manufacturing capacity to produce 1.2 million units annually. “We have delivered on our commitment to open a smartphone factory in SA,” Mara Group CEO Ashish Thakkar said at the ceremony.

“This represents the Mara Group’s first foray into the country and the first fully-fledged smartphone manufacturing plant that will produce high quality but affordable smartphones locally.”

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STATE-OF-THE-ART INCUBATION HUB Cisco South Africa brought further cause for celebration in April with the launch of an R10 million stateof-the-art Incubation Hub in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. The second facility of its kind built by the company in South Africa, it aims to develop SMMEs and speed up their entry into the digital marketplace. SMMEs will be able to connect with global Cisco experts, who can support them develop business ideas and concepts in a digital world.

“As the government, we acknowledge that in order to secure the future prosperity of this nation we need to take advantage of the rapid technological changes, taking place around the globe,” recognised

KZN MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs Sihle Zikalala.

“We welcome the establishment of the Cisco Edge Incubation Centre, here within the Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone, and see it playing an important role in developing our people’s capabilities in the areas of technology and innovation. We hope it will be amongst the catalysts which will promote the growth of a thriving knowledge economy.”

Dube TradePort CEO Hamish Erskine closed with his thoughts on both the development’s immediate likely influence, as well as its importance to the visions for the wider Aerotropolis masterplan. “We foresee the Cisco Edge Incubation Center

having a huge impact on developing local business and entrepreneurs throughout the province of KwaZuluNatal,” Erskine propounded, “enabling them to build their capacity to compete on a global stage.

“The facility will also be one of the cornerstones of the knowledgeintensive firms that include an innovation centre, BPOs and research facilities,” he surmised. “We look forward to bringing these into the Dube City precinct over the next 10 years as we develop the core of what will become a smart city around the King Shaka International Airport.”

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