Project packaging is the way that business is being done,“ reported
South African Capital Equipment Export Council director Sybil
Rhomberg at a meeting of capital-equipment suppliers earlier this
month.
„Companies waiting for project tenders need to rethink their way of
doing business,“ she stated.
Under the new model of exporting, business clusters from South
Africa come together to form a combined bid for a share in a
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Companies involved in everything from equipment supply, engineering
and project engineering, building and construction, coal hard grove index instrement manufusting namesfabrication and
financing can be among those that participate in these
projects.
Some of the projectiron ore excavator car unloaders that are being, or have been, packaged to have
a large number of South African participants is a mineral-sands
project in Malawi, as well as mine projects in Mauritania,
Kazakhstan, Siberia and Australia, Rhomberg reported at the
meeting.
However, she refused to divulge details of these projects, saying
that only members get access to information about projects being
packaged with a South African content.
Rhomberg explained that a project comes in and a team gets drawn
from export council members, who know each other and meet with each
other monthly.
Potential council members were also informed that assistance in the
form of subsidised interest rates is available from the Department
of Trade and Industry (DTI) to make these projects more
feasible.
As in many other countries, exporters can now offer clients lower
interest rates, with the DTI providing the difference between the
subsidised rate and the bank rate.
Rhomberg advised potential members at the meeting that they could
add this as an extra incentive when selling their products. South
African business clusters continue to be involved in the packaging
of numerous projects each year, reported Rhomberg.