Gauteng Business 2016 edition
The 2016 edition of the Gauteng Business and Investment Guide is the premier business and investment guide for the Gauteng province and the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA). In addition to detailed profiles of key provincial organisations, including the GGDA, the Automotive Industry Development Corporation Centre (AIDC), the Gauteng Investment Centre, the Gauteng IDZ, the Gauteng ICT Park SEZ and Constitution Hill, this edition includes well-researched economic and demographic data on the province, as well as insights into the province’s five development corridors and the new industries and development nodes in these corridors; a focus on Gauteng as a global city region; and key growth sectors for the province.
The 2016 edition of the Gauteng Business and Investment Guide is the premier business and investment guide for the Gauteng province and the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA). In addition to detailed profiles of key provincial organisations, including the GGDA, the Automotive Industry Development Corporation Centre (AIDC), the Gauteng Investment Centre, the Gauteng IDZ, the Gauteng ICT Park SEZ and Constitution Hill, this edition includes well-researched economic and demographic data on the province, as well as insights into the province’s five development corridors and the new industries and development nodes in these corridors; a focus on Gauteng as a global city region; and key growth sectors for the province.
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OVERVIEW<br />
many high-end cooperates competing<br />
for space in new office<br />
buildings close to the stations.<br />
However, due to the regions<br />
rapid economic and population<br />
growth, integrated solutions<br />
need to be implemented in<br />
order to ease escalating traffic<br />
congestion on <strong>Gauteng</strong>’s many<br />
new and existing highways.<br />
The revamping and modernisation<br />
of public transport and<br />
roads is aimed at creating a coordinated,<br />
integrated transport<br />
system for the entire province.<br />
It will also establish <strong>Gauteng</strong><br />
as a Global City Region that<br />
uses international standards of<br />
service delivery with seamless<br />
mobility between municipalities<br />
provided by different modes of<br />
transport.<br />
Transnet upgrades<br />
Meanwhile, Transnet is spending<br />
R300-billion on upgrading<br />
and expanding every aspect of<br />
its operations. Many of those<br />
improvements will come in<br />
<strong>Gauteng</strong>, where Transnet Rail<br />
Engineering (TRE) has a major<br />
presence from its workshops<br />
in Pretoria and Germiston. The<br />
Wits Metrorail system serves<br />
Johannesburg and its surrounds.<br />
Park Station, in the north of the<br />
The new construction at OR Tambo airport.<br />
central business district, is the largest station in Africa and acts as<br />
the metropolitan hub.<br />
Airports<br />
OR Tambo International Airport caters for more than 17-million passengers<br />
every year, receives more than 105 000 arriving air-traffic<br />
movements and employs 18 000 people. Greater Johannesburg has<br />
several smaller airports that host mostly commercial aircraft:<br />
• Rand Airport in Germiston in the south-east<br />
• Grand Central Airport in Midrand, halfway between Johannesburg<br />
and Pretoria Wonderboom Airport in Pretoria North<br />
• Waterkloof Air Force base, south of Pretoria<br />
• Lanseria Airport, to the north-west of Johannesburg<br />
The developers of the Cradle City project, Amari Land, expect the<br />
number of departing passengers at Lanseria to grow to seven million<br />
annually by 2017, and that scheduled flights will increase from 1 100<br />
to almost 4 000. Freight tonnage is expected to reach 20 000 tons by<br />
2017, up from the current total of 5 000 tons. Brakpan and Springs are<br />
among several towns that have good airfields. Nigel is home to the<br />
Dunnottar Airport and an aeronautical museum.<br />
CONTACT INFO<br />
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