{"id":8409,"date":"2012-02-28T14:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T12:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africa-to-solicit-bids-for-17-bln-worth-of-trains\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T14:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T12:41:45","slug":"s-africa-to-solicit-bids-for-17-bln-worth-of-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-to-solicit-bids-for-17-bln-worth-of-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa to solicit bids for $17 bln worth of trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Corrects alert to show source is an official, not a minister)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN<\/span> Feb 28 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa will<br \/>\nsolicit international bids for 128 billion rand ($17 billion)<br \/>\nworth of train coaches and locomotives as early as next month, a<br \/>\nsenior transport official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mawethu Vilana, the deputy director general for integrated<br \/>\ntransport planning at the Department of Transport, told Reuters<br \/>\nthe government would solicit bids for 7,200 train coaches and<br \/>\nlocomotives, with first delivery expected by 2015.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking at putting this thing to tender around<br \/>\nMarch\/April of this year,&#8221; Mawethu Vilana told Reuters on the<br \/>\nsidelines of a media briefing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of coaches will be divided into two 10-year<br \/>\nbatches, with 3,600 vehicles in each batch, as South Africa<br \/>\nmoves to modernise an ageing railway infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Given the size of the order, Vilana said there would likely<br \/>\nbe more than one original manufacturer tapped to provide the<br \/>\ncoaches.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For obvious reasons it may not be possible to have one<br \/>\noriginal equipment manufacturer. You may have to look at a<br \/>\ncombination of one, two or three manufacturers,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n($1 = 7.5855 South African rand)\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; editing by David Dolan)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Corrects alert to show source is an official, not a minister) CAPE TOWN Feb 28 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa will solicit international bids for 128 billion rand ($17 billion) worth of train coaches and locomotives as early as next month, a senior transport official said on Tuesday. Mawethu Vilana, the deputy director general for integrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}