Nonyameko Mandindi
Chief Executive Officer
Intersite Property Management Services, South Africa

•     The critical role of corridor optimisation resulting in increased intermodal compatibility between road, rail and ports
• Executing long term strategic intent for recapturing South Africa’s freight volumes from road to rail
• Overcoming the challenges of safety and security in the rail industry

Mpumi Mpofu
Director-General
Ministry of Transport, South Africa

• Modernising railway equipment for increased operational efficiency
• Increasing rail haulage market share
• Overcoming maintenance backlogs for improved functionality
• Exploring the future of South Africa’s rail
• Identification of profitable rail activity areas for greater railway administration

• Trends in container shipping, transport and distribution
• Taking on the weight of growing freight volumes in South Africa’s ports
• Exploring more than just monetary investment into the transport industry

• Improving the physical infrastructure of transfer mechanisms in Africa’s ports and dealing with congestion
• Strengthening the ties between shipping lines and other stakeholders in the intermodal chain
• Perspectives in the development of ports and intermodal terminals
• What can be done to boost the combined transport usage?
• Rectifying the problems of bottle necks and congestion in ports

Honourable Minister
Professor Christopher Ameyaw – Akumfi
Minister of Railways, Ports & Harbours, Ghana

• Analysing where national resources should be invested for maximum efficiency in the transport economy?
• Debating the efficiency of moving freight back to rail
• Exploring the benefits of road versus rail and opportunities for improving intermodal transport networks

Bruce Morton
Transport Specialist
Shands Consulting Services/University of Pretoria, South Africa

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• The value of a strong intermodal structure in the success of export/import in South Africa
• Exploring the benefits of a transmodal interchange
• Developing an integrated transport management approach for synchronised intermodal links
• Improving capacity of dry ports and container terminals

Wayne Bateman
Former Chief Executive Officer
Northern Cape Chamber of Commerce, South Africa

• The value of trade corridors in facilitating intermodal transfers in the regions
• Exploring the costs of infrastructure and how corridors reduce the costs of expensive border crossing delays
• Logistical chains through Africa’s regions – where are the gaps?
• Exploring the benefits of economic corridors
• Impact of Intra-Africa trade corridors

Elan Cusiac-Barr
Principal
CPCS Transcom

• Nigerian Railway corporation – past, present and future prospects
• Growing the capacity of African rail networks
• Successfully reducing the cost of using rail for increased revenue capabilities

Mazi Nwankwo
Managing Director
Nigeria Railways Corporation, Nigeria

• Establishing sustainable business practice and strategies for retaining and increasing market share
• Using the Brazilian model to improve railway efficiency

• Discussing key operational obstacles in Africa’s railway industry
• What is needed for a thriving and profitable rail freight industry?
• Debating the issue of infrastructure and operating equipment investment for greater efficiency
• How far are we from achieving regional integration on the continent?
• Compatibility of gauge systems, signalling and telecommunications, rolling stock
• The benefits of pooling Africa’s resources
• An operators perspective on infrastructural enhancements

Mazi Nwankwo
Managing Director
Nigeria Railways Corporation, Nigeria

• Challenges when improving train services on suburban and regional railways
• Improving safety with an Automatic Train Protection System
• Example of an Automatic Train Protection System based on standardized components and procedures

Rolf Seiffert
Head of International Business
Siemens Transportation Systems, Switzerland

• Signalling and train control for safe operations on densely utilised networks
• Optimising performance and productivity by means of automation
• Offering security and comfort to railway users

•     Assessing the impact of concessioning on railways performance improvement addressing work culture
• Assessing the reality: strategic challenges for private operators
• Assessing the relationship between government and concessionaires
• Monetising the benefits of concessioning and exploring where and when to invest in the future
• Increasing traffic in Africa’s regions through viable concession models
• Addressing inefficiencies and improving competition to maximise productivity
• Taking on the costs of infrastructure maintenance
• What legacies will concessioning all of Africa’s railways leave us?
• Exploring viable alternatives to the concessioning option
• Cross industry investment in rail for mutual benefits

Elan Cusiac-Barr
Principal
CPCS Transcom, Canada

• Exploring the benefits of collaboration on economical rather than political status
• Facilitating profitable cross border rail movements
• East Africa’s trade and facilitation project
• Maximising on the efficiency of long distance rail linkages

• Financial case study on concessioning in Africa
• Project background, financial structure, project innovation and project funding
• Prospects for future profitability in the concession

• Financial perspective of lessons learnt from the concessioning deal
• Investigating the complex intricacies of involving two separate countries and a unified concession offered by international competitive bids
• Key issues arising out of such a concession

• Level of contribution of international communities in the success of Africa’s railway entities
• Defining the role of development partners and Africa's expertise in the design and implementation of railway infrastructure rehabilitation
• Update on the impact of SSATP on transport development in Africa
• Disaggregation of equipment and infrastructure investment

• Investigating investment strategies in the African rail sector
• Driving economic growth through the financing of railway developments in Africa
• The role of banks in financing transport investments in the region
• Managing the challenges of investing into major railway developments: why are financiers hesitant to finance rail
• Opportunities for private participation in the rail industry
• Exploring the level of contribution from international and Africa’s donors
• Understanding government participation in the privatization process

Peter Copley
Transport Specialist
Development Bank of South Africa, South Africa

Gavin Maasdorp
Managing Director
Imani Development, South Africa

Vishal Agarwal
Lead Project Transaction Advisor
Kenya/Uganda Concession, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kenya

Roger Lambson
Sales Director – Middle East & Africa
General Electric, South Africa

SK Ramachandra & Inder Mahadevan
Tata, India

•     Assessing the profitability of passenger rail services
• The link between financial profitability and public interest in passenger rail services
• Restructuring of passenger rail administration for greater operational efficiency
• Developing a coherent railway safety management approach

Lucky Montana
Chief Executive Officer
SARCC Metrorail, South Africa

• Condition monitoring and rehabilitation mechanisms
• Debating the use of Africa’s versus international technology
• Implementing intelligent transport systems
• Service design reliability

Pallelo Lebaka
Managing Director
UCW Partnership, South Africa

• Leveraging insight from developed into developing regions
• Findings from original research into all significant railway countries worldwide
• Looking at the competitiveness and sustainability of railway entities
• Gauging the performance of privatised and other railways on the African continent
• Opportunities and pitfalls of railway globalisation and the alternatives for repositioning Africa's railways

• Labour perspective on railway restructuring
• Labour response to rail privatisation

•     Ensuring adequate maintenance and upkeep of rail signalling systems
• Eliminating vandalism as a threat to rail safety
• Improving the technical training of rail staff
• Implementing accident prevention and mitigation systems
• Improving safety procedures
• Developing a coherent and systematic approach to safety management

Andre Harrison
Chief Operations Officer
SARCC Metrorail, South Africa

Alfred Nalitolela
Director General
SUMATRA, Tanzania

Objective

This masterclass will address the complexities of intermodal cooperation and provide practical solutions, based on global trends in the development of intermodal systems.

Agenda

• Asses proposed future developments in intermodal connectivity
• Apply global intermodal strategies to African examples
• Implement strategies to nurture working relationships across the various modes of containerised freight transport

Masterclass presenter
Allen Jorgenson
Media and Research Officer
Railroad Association of South Africa

Although maintenance is expensive, it will become more expensive to replace the failing equipment early in its life because maintenance has been neglected. Railway maintenance should result in optimising the lifecycle costs of particular assets, whilst maintaining risk at a level that is as low as is reasonably practicable. This requires a detailed knowledge of your infrastructure and system requirements.

Objective

The privatisation of many of Africa's railway networks have resulted in the need for new maintenance requirements especially with regard to maintenance costs and railway availability. An essential ingredient in the successful running of railways is a well maintained system. This masterclass explores methods of ensuring optimal rail maintenance of systems used in modern train maintenance. This masterclass introduces an integrated methodology to organising the maintenance of rail infrastructure and optimising life-cycle costs.

Key masterclass elements include:

• Finding the key drivers for effective railway maintenance
• Exploring the future of maintenance planning
• Infrastructure reliability optimisation strategy
• Considerations in structures maintenance
• Considerations in signal maintenance
• Impact of new technology
• Heavy haul rail developments
• Impact of improved processes
• Best practice fundamental requirements for railway asset
  management

Org Theunissen
Maintenance specialist
R&H Railway Consultants