If South Africa is to address its high transport costs, it needs to embrace intermodal logistics, Gebisa Ledwaba, rail projects executive at Imperial Logistics told FTW. “It’s the only real solution,” he said, “and moving from consensus to action is long overdue. “Rail corridor traffic has declined by almost 20% over the past 15 years, whereas in the same period road corridor traffic more than doubled. “Africa has significant opportunities to leverage co-modality as the key for an optimum logistics system.”
