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South Africa’s new air transport hub

Volume 48 Number 1

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Making the most of Mining Indaba www.africanreview.com

Mining:

Power:

Technology:

Dewatering for drilling at a Congolese mine P46

Renewable energy projects across Africa P34

Easier trading for farmers with mobiles P30

Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga - Nigerian Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment P26

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UP FRONT

Editor’s Note

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he pressures affecting the Ghanaian textiles industry, and its implications for the nation’s economic growth, are assessed on pages 20 and 21. Measures taken to improve roads in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, are detailed on page 24. There is a brief on the reinvigoration of Kenya’s economy on page 25. Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga, Nigeria’s minister of trade, industry and investment, spoke recently of his work to improve Nigeria’s economic potential - and his views are published on pages 26 and 28.

Herein, there is an article on the use of mobile communications networks to improve agricultural business, on pages 30 and 31. This issue includes, also, guidance on efficient, non-intrusive condition monitoring and machine maintenance on page 32. The ways in which solar energy is meeting the continent’s various demands for power are detailed on pages 34 and 36. Following a preview of CONEXPO/CON-Agg on page 38, this issue also offers an assessment of India’s contribution to road-building on page 42. Plans for the construction of a new facility to serve air travel and air freight, to and from South Africa, are analysed on pages 43 and 44. The dewatering of a Congolese mine before an intense drilling programme commences is presented on pages 46 and 47. And a preview of the Investing in African Mining Indaba is offered on page 51.

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Making the most of Mining Indaba Mining:

Power:

Technology:

Dewatering for drilling at a Congolese mine P46

Renewable energy projects across Africa P34

Easier trading for farmers with mobiles P30

Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga - Nigerian Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment P26

Cover picture: Jean-Baptiste Dodane Inset, top: Aurecon Inset, bottom: Stephen Williams

Andrew Croft, Managing Editor

Contents

REGULARS 04 Agenda:

14 Bulletin:

Initiatives for industry and enterprises

53 Solutions:

New tech on show, in Africa and for Africans

Technologies designed to enhance ‘best practices’

P24 FEATURES 20 Economy The challenges facing Ghana’s textiles industry; the way forward for Ghana’s transport infrastructure; Kenya’s fresh economic impetus; and Nigeria’s new economic potential

30 Technology Mobile communications for farmers; and maintaining machines to increase operational longevity

33 Power The increased use of renewable energy sources to support facilities and utilities

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38 Construction Earthmoving equipment in East Africa; India’s unique contribution to African roadbuilding; and plans for the building of South Africa’s new aerotropolis

45 Mining Automotive excellence to enhance logistics; Dewatering a Congolese mine; professional services from Britain; an innovative renewable energy installation in South Africa; and an overview of Investing in African Mining Indaba

52 Logistics Handling and loading equipment to move materials more productively Audit Bureau of Circulations Business Magazines

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NEWS

Agenda / North Air Algerie flies with new Boeing aircraft

Air Algerie has purchased 14 Boeing aircraft

Algeria’s national carrier Air Algerie has signed deals worth US$760mn with USbased Boeing, European aerospace consortium Airbus and ATR, a French-Italian aircraft manufacturer, for the purchase of 14 aircraft.

The agreement includes the purchase of eight Boeing 737-800 new generation planes capable of carrying 150 passengers each, three 250-seat Airbus A330-200 planes and three ATR 72-600, a 70-seater short-haul regional aircraft.

Mohamed Salah Boultif, CEO of Air Algerie, said, “The 737-800 continues to be the backbone of Air Algerie’s fleet. So far, we are

pleased with these aircraft, and anticipate receiving all eight of these new units before the end of 2016.”

Boultif said that the aircraft — Airbus 330200 passenger jets and Boeing 737-800 jets — would be delivered between next September and the end of 2016 in agreements that would be financed by Algerian state banks.

Boeing said in a statement that the deal for eight 737-800 aircraft was worth US$724mn at list prices when the order was finalised.

Boultif added that the deal would help the company reinforce domestic and international route.

Region to tap renewable energy The governments of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia have committed to develop renewable power within their countries, with the aim of creating an integrated energy mix to meet the growing demand for electricity in the region, says a recently released report.

The big challenge is pulling in the significant investment needed, as foreign investors are still cautious in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring protests. The stunted development of the sector’s infrastructure and ultimate deficit in power supply has been attributed, in the main, to the region’s political uprisings although price subsidies, economic downturn, regulatory and technical inefficiencies have also contributed to the status quo.

Despite support from the European Union, efforts to get the Mediterranean Ring regional power grid have also not progressed as hoped. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt need to reform subsidies on fossil fuels to ensure long-term sustainability.

SEFA nod for Morocco wind project Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) has approved a US$960,000 loan for the JbelSendoug (Khalladi) Wind Project in northern Morocco in December 2013 to support preparation activities to bring the project to bankability. The wind energy project will be developed near the Mediterranean coast, 15km east of Tangiers. The project involves the development, financing, construction and operation of a 120MW wind power facility under an independent power producers scheme authorised through a concession granted by the Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment. The project will see the construction of a 23 km transmission line and a sub-station to evacuate energy generated by the facility into the interconnected grid. When complete, the Khalladi wind energy project will increase the

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provision of electricity where demand growth is strong.

This will result in energy savings as the Moroccan population relies on their own generators at times of power outage. Those savings will contribute to increasing their purchasing power for other goods and services and stimulate consumption and investment. Yet, another benefit of the project is that it is expected to avoid the emission of approximately 175,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year.

The electricity produced by the facility — an average of 340GWh per year — will be sold primarily to industrial users as well as with the Office national de l’électricité et de l’eau potable (ONEE) buying any remaining balance. Following the approval, Alex Rugamba, director of the African

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Development Bank’s energy, environment and climate change department, said, “For SEFA, this project is a double win as it involves clean energy production that will, in turn, spur economic growth. When finished, the Khalladi Wind Energy project will provide more reliable power, fewer power outages and greater scope for private sector growth in the project region. This grant is evidence of the bank’s continued strong commitment to renewable energy investments in Morocco.”

SEFA is stepping in to support the roll-out of the project and to assist in its financing. The grant will support the optimal structuring of a multi-power purchase agreement set-up with industrial firms to ensure bankability. More specifically, the SEFA grant will finance a legal advisor to UPC Morocco Wind Partners BV the project sponsor, and advisor to lenders. www.africanreview.com

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Agenda / East World Bank US$60 million loan boosts Tanzanian economy Tanzania has received a loan of US$60mn from the World Bank to boost the business and financial services sectors as well as enable foreign investors to buy land for development in the East African country.

The Private Sector Competitiveness Project (PSCP) supports the Tanzanian government’s programme to develop the private sector by improving legal certainty and lowering the cost of doing business across thecountry’s economy.

Philippe Dongier, World Bank country director for Tanzania, said, “During the past decade, Tanzania has experienced high rates of economic growth, due to economic liberalisation, sound macroeconomic policies, and an expanding public sector. The PSCP’s focus on securing land ownership and improving access to finance will facilitate increased flows of private investment into the country’s industries, light manufacturing firms and farms, while boosting shared growth and jobs and improving the quality of life.”

The World Bank has predicted that the Tanzanian economy will grow by around seven per cent over the next two years and that inflation will stabilise at around five per cent, largely due to falling food prices and tight monetary policies. It also pointed out that even when agriculture productivity

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eolia Water Solutions & Technologies South Africa will provide a containerised water treatment plant – built into six 40-foot shipping containers – to the Kansanshi Copper Mine near Solwezi in Zambia. As part of a new copper smelter project, the mine aims to grow its annual copper output from 340,000 tonnes in 2013 to 400,000 tonnes by 2015.

Nigel Bester, project engineer at Veolia’s Engineered Systems & Services division, said, “As the world’s eighth largest copper mine, the new Kansanshi smelter has very specific requirements for boiler feed, process and drinking water.

The original PSCP was approved by the World Bank board in December 2005

increases, the poorest families tend to be left behind. “This underscores the importance of highly targeted safety net programmes to support the most vulnerable,” said Dongier.

The PSCP programme supports activities designed to improve land registration, land use planning and administration reform as well as regularise tenure rights. The original PSCP was approved by the World Bank board in December 2005.

Tanzania is also considering scaling up its conditional cash transfer programme at a cost of about US$250mn annually, government sources revealed.

China donates solar kits to Rwanda China has provided Rwanda with solar kit systems worth US$635,153 in a bid to increase the country’s rural electrification.

According to the Rwanda’s Ministry of Infrastructure, the solar kit systems will be installed in the rural areas of the southern, northern and eastern provinces, that are not connected to the national power grid. The equipment received consist of solar modules, cabinets, batteries, switchboards, compact fluorescent Lamps and light wires. Emma Francoise Isumbingabo, State Minister in-

Zambia’s copper mine to get water treament plant

charge of energy and water, said, “The kits will boost rural electrification and ultimately improve the well-being of the rural population.”

It is expected that at least 400 households, selected based on the five-year National Electrification Plan, will benefit from the project.

Shen Yongxiang, Chinese ambassador to Rwanda, said the support is in the framework of ‘Eight New Measures to Strengthen China-Africa Cooperation’, under which China offered to support Rwanda with solar equipment.

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The containerised plants are designed to be linked up to one another on site, and will operate as a single plant with multiple output streams

“The result is a flagship water treatment solution that upgrades river water to match each requirement exactly, with guaranteed availability due to a duty standby design on all process streams.”

Veolia will completely manufacture, test and certify the plants at its factory in Sebenza, Gauteng, before they are transported to site. The containerised plants are designed to be linked up to one another on site, and will operate as a single plant with multiple output streams to produce a combined 42.5 cu m of treated water per hour.

Bester added, “As part of the global Veolia, we further have access to some of the best technologies, which means that, overall, we provide the entire, fully engineered package that provides longterm benefits.” www.africanreview.com

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Agenda / South Seamless customer service incremental to company’s growth

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nsuring customers can conclude their transaction seamlessly, over multiple channels, whether it be point of sale, kiosk, self-service terminal, online or through a mobile device is now a requirement for a retailer who wants to hold on to repeat business and ensure incremental revenue growth.

How the customer engages with a retailer at the checkout is one of the key differentiators in a hotly contested retail space – especially in a downturn economy. Integrating multiple value-added services (VAS) through multiple customer contact channels has moved from a technology challenge to an operations and marketing imperative.

The sale and operation of financial services, gift cards, couponing and loyalty schemes has taken the retail domain into a new and complex space in which retailers often do not have the required skills.

Ian Steyn, executive at Innervation VAS, said, “The user is not aware of the technical complexity, nor should they be. It’s all about the end-user experience and ensuring customers have a great experience, no matter what their purchasing requirement. After all, the final experience of their interaction is the lasting image they will be left with as they leave the store.”

Choosing the right technology partner means finding a company who can ensure the correct level of focus and expertise on the product the retailer wants to offer as well as the seamless integration of such a product.

Over the past year, Innervation has delivered more than 40 integrations to retailer channel applications being used by a large number of retailers across South Africa, many of them counting as a first-to-market offering.

A good example of a high profile Innervation integration is the launch of the iTunes card solution now available through Pick n Pay.

“When we were brought in to handle the iTunes integration, we were able to take the existing Pick n Pay channel integration framework and rapidly integrate the support for iTunes cards. This not only dramatically reduced implementation time, but further enhanced the basket of products that is available through the Innervation value added services (VAS) platform. The aggregation capabilities of the VAS platform and its unique integration framework allow retailers to quickly take advantage of a range of gift card products, via a single integration,” added Steyn.

Innervation’s ability to support the integration of innovative technology is further highlighted by the recent MPOS solution at a national retailer.

The solution was a first of its kind at a major retailer in South Africa.

The integrated mobile point of sale solution was rolled out across a range of group stores, featuring iPod touch equipped devices with scanners and key pads. The device itself features an iPod touch that sits inside a VeriFone PAYware device, which provides a barcode scanner, magstripe and chip reader as well as a secure keypad on the underside of the device The device encrypts each transaction and integrates wirelessly with the retailer’s system and the process for payment is the same as a person purchasing goods from a standard Point of Sale, except that staff can now assist customers from anywhere in the store.

One of the key benefits of the solution includes queue reduction, freeing up space within the store.

The device can also be used by staff to check the price of items for customers and for stock taking. From the device, the payment transaction proceeds through the retailer’s system to Innervation and then on to the acquiring bank.

SMEs to get own exchange in Zimbabwe The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) is in the process of developing an exchange for the small to medium enterprises (SMEs), according to minister of finance and economic planning Patrick Chinamasa.

Chinamana stated it is the government’s expectation that the low-tier stock market will broaden participation of SMEs and other indigenous companies in the mainstream economy.

According to a financial sector (Finscope, 2012), Zimbabwe's SMEs contribute more than 60 per cent to GDP and employ more than 5.8mn people.

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“Therefore strategies that target the development of SMEs will provide immense benefits to the country in terms of growth, employment generation and support to the fiscus through taxes, just to mention a few,” Chinamasa said.

He added that the flexibility of SMEs provides backward and forward linkages in the mainstream supply chain enabling them to exploit niche markets.

Chinamasa said however that SMEs development in Zimbabwe are hamstrung by several challenges relating to working capital constraints, high cost of borrowing and business management skills which

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undermine their graduation into sizeable corporates. Chinamasa added that government's thrust in support of SMEs development will focus on access to credit,technical and business management training and management information systems.

Meanwhile, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has put in place a framework for the establishment of an automated trading system to complete the proposed central securities depository. The platform is expected to be automated in Q2 2014.

Wallace Mawire www.africanreview.com

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NEWS

Agenda / West Nicolas trailer can fight adverse weather conditions German company Nicolas has delivered MHD G2 SPE modular trailer to Addax Petroleum in Nigeria.

With a zinc dust primer as a basis and coated with polyurethane, and painted using environmentally compatible so-called high-solid top coat in the customer´s company colour, the vehicles are suitably equipped to resist the adverse weather conditions. With up to 46-tonnes axle load and the ability to also accommodate extremely concentrated loads, the modular vehicle is predestined for use in the demanding day-to-day operations in the oil and gas industry.

A tropical climate, average temperatures around 30°C, salty air, for the MHD G2 SPE, with 20 driven axle lines and complete with an electronic multi-mode steering system, it also has to combat the toughest operating conditions.

Addax Petroleum will be using the newlyacquired vehicles mainly for loading offshore components onto floating production storage and offloading units (FPSOs), which are utilised in offshore activities for the extraction, storage and loading of crude oil and natural gas by means of one or more drilling platforms. Addax Petroleum is part of the Sinopec Group, the largest oil refining group of companies in Asia, and operates

The MHD G2 SPE modular trailer

production facilities in Africa, Middle East and the North Sea. Pierre Berret, area manager sales at Nicolas, said, “We were able to deliver at very short notice, the vehicle precisely fulfilled all payload requirements and the customer was well convinced by the excellent quality of workmanship. The latest changes in the production process guarantee even higher reliability of our vehicles.”

The bogie of the new Nicolas MHD G2 generation — available with mechanical or electronic multi-mode steering — has been specially designed to carry extremely concentrated loads. For road transportation, the MHD G2 can be used as a trailer or semitrailer combination as well as coupled side-by-side as a 3 or 4-file combination. The MHD G2 has the lowest driving height on the market when loaded.

Nigerian finance chiefs meet on development

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lusegun Awolowo, CEO of Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), and the CEO of the Nigerian ExportImport Bank (NEXIM) Roberts U Orya met up recently in Abuja to discuss areas of possible collaboration and synergy.

Orya stated that upon his resumption as the CEO of the bank, he discovered that the bank has completely moved away from its core mandate and veered into lending to both oil and gas resulting in a dismal credit performance and loss of confidence. This warranted him to seek the approval of the bank’s shareholders to initiate a corporate transformation project that led to the redefinition of the bank’s mission, vision and strategic objectives, with the intention of channelling its resources into the development of four sectors — manufacturing, agro-processing, solid minerals and services (MASS). The MASS sectors were deemed to have high amount of employment and foreign exchange earnings.

NEPC’s Olusegun Awolowo (left) with Nexim CEO Roberts U Orya

Dealing with fraud for Glo Mobile Mobile anti-fraud and revenue protection specialist Revector has been selected by Glo Mobile Ghana to lead a campaign to detect and eliminate SIM box fraud on its network.

Akeem Kazeem, head of business at Glo Mobile Ghana, said, “Revector was the obvious choice as a partner to identify and remove illegal SIM boxes from our network. The company’s experience, expertise and consultancy are globally acknowledged. We are delighted that the engagement of Revector has started yielding immediate results. They have been identifying new SIM boxes every day as we work to remove this illegal activity.”

SIM box or GSM gateway fraud occurs when the cost paid to mobile operators to terminate international calls exceeds the cost of a local mobile to mobile call in a country. Fraudsters buy multiple SIM cards and sell the capacity to terminate calls on the open market. This leads to lost revenues for mobile network operators.

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An outcome of the corporate transformation was crafting of new strategic objectives to enable the bank have a clear market focus and become a major contributor to non-oil exports. Orya told Awolowo that the bank is also developing the ECOWAS and other African regional markets as the traditional market for Nigerian exporters. The idea is provide a strong platform for the exporters to venture into the more complex markets of Asia and other developed economies in line with the strategy in other jurisdictions. www.africanreview.com

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Events / 2014 March

9-12

18-19

MS & Africa Middle East

Cards & Payments Africa

2-3

Cairo, Egypt www.msafrica.net

Johannesburg, South Africa www.terrapinn.com

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18-19

Power & Electricity World Africa

Food & Technology Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa www.terrapinn.com

Johannesburg, South Africa www.mmisouthafrica.co.za

12-13

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Banking & Mobile Money West Africa

Securex West Africa

African High-Growth Markets Addis Ababa, Ethiopia www.cemea.economistconferences.com 3-5

agrofood West Africa Accra, Ghana www.agrofood-westafrica.com 3-5

plastprintpack West Africa Accra, Ghana www.ppp-westafrica.com 4-6

Tyrexpo Africa Johannesburg, South Africa www.eci-international.com 4-8

CONEXPO-CON/AGG Las Vegas, USA www.conexpoconagg.com

Lagos, Nigeria aitecafrica.com

Lagos, Nigeria www.securexwestafrica.com 27-28

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Intermodal Africa North

Powergen Africa

Lagos, Nigeria www.transportevents.com

Cape Town, South Africa www.powergenafrica.com

31 Mar-11 Apr

Africa Cementrade Summit

World Telecommunication Development Conference

Lusaka, Zambia www.cmtevents.com

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt www.itu.int

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Where Africa’s miners meet Held 3-6 February at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, the 2014 Investing in African Mining Indaba is the world’s largest gathering of mining’s most influential stakeholders and decision-makers vested in African mining. 2013 was a record breaking year, with more than 7,800 individuals representing more than 1,500 international companies from 100 countries and approximately 45 African and non-African government delegations.

This is where the mining world meets. Professionals including key mining analysts, fund managers, investment specialists, and governments regard Mining Indaba as a preferred venue for obtaining information about current economic and mining developments from the world’s leading experts on African mining.

Debating sustainable development Successful ways of integrating social responsibility and sustainability into the corporate agenda are topics under discussion in the global mining industry – so a particular highlight at Mining Indaba is the high-calibre, dedicated forum on sustainable development presented in collaboration with the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM).

“We anticipate robust and thought-provoking sessions as we have drawn speakers from civil society and international financial organisations as well

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as the mining industry,” said ICMM managing director Jonathan Moore.

“We are delighted at the balance and integrity of the forum topics and high-level speakers thanks to the transparent process of their selection through the advisory committee set up together with our forum partners, ICMM,” Moore added.

Mining Indaba is also an opportunity for the industry to contribute positively, points out Moore. Over the past five years, Mining Indaba has generated R336mn (US$31.35mn) for the local Cape economy and contributed to creating more than 3,750 direct and indirect jobs.

“The significance of a 20th Mining Indaba is a direct example of 20 years of post-apartheid in South Africa. Mining Indaba represents a benefit of what a country can do when it tears down its walls and allows the world to experience all the riches it has to its offer. In this spirit, we are focusing on giving back in 2014,” said Moore. The Mining Indaba Bursary Programme has been increased from more than US$17,500 (its launch value in 2013) distributed to two students to more than US$27,000 supporting four students in 2014. Second, a contribution of more than US$2,000 to a local Cape Town education charity is providing underprivileged children with the basic necessities to continue their studies. www.miningindaba.com www.africanreview.com

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Bulletin/Investment East African countries launch cross-border payments system

Tanzania to target investment through Special Economic Zones

Qatar to provide Morocco US$1.25bn financial aid

Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have

Tanzania has set aside 16,150ha of land for

agreement with Morocco to provide the

collaboratively launched an integrated

the development of special economic

north African kingdom US$1.25bn worth of

real-time cross-border payments system

zones (SEZs) in three of its cities in an

aid, as a part of a five-year financial

for East Africa, aimed at removing

attempt to encourage investment in the

assistance package; the deal, signed by

bottlenecks to business and bolstering

country; investors into the SEZs will be

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and the

intra-regional trade; the Central Bank of

exempted from tax payments for 10 years,

Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Ben Hamad Al-

Kenya said the East African Payments

will have to decide in which of the three

Thani, will be primarily spent on improving

System (EAPS) would speed up the process

cities – Mtwara, Kigoma or Bagamoyo – to

infrastructure in order to strengthen the

of commercial transactions in real time,

set up their businesses, and will be allowed

country's economy and foster tourism,

with Rwanda and Burundi also being

to bring in five people into the SEZs

while the Morocco government,

expected to join the programme, which

through an automatic immigration quota

meanwhile, has announced its aimed to

the Central Bank of Kenya said represented

during the first five years.

reduce the country’s budget deficit to 4.9

a further step towards the creation of a

The government of Qatar has signed an

per cent of the GDP next year, from 5.5 per

Actis energy fund raises US$1.15bn

cent in 2013.

Private equity firm Actis has raised US$1.15bn through its third energy fund,

Africa Oilfield Logistics Limited raises US$7.3mn

which will be used for investment in

By placing 60mn new ordinary shares in

electricity generation and distribution

the company at 7.5 pence each with

businesses in Africa, Latin America and

existing and new institutional investors,

Asia; Actis currently has US$1.4bn worth of

Africa Oilfield Logistics Ltd has raised

investments in its global energy portfolio

US$7.3mn; the funds raised will be used to

and its latest fund, Actis Energy 3, has

support Africa Oilfield’s development as it

already been involved in four deals across

continues to establish itself as a support

The new fund will be invested in infrastructure projects across Africa (PHOTO: Herman Brinkman/sxc.hu)

the globe, including a preliminary

services and logistics provider servicing

agreement to purchase a majority stake in

the sub-Saharan Africa resource sector,

AfDB commissions US$25mn fund for African infrastructure projects

three power assets in Cameroon, as well as

with its operations being structured

the purchase of a number of water,

around six key, distinct and focussed

wastewater and electricity services in

divisions to provide clients with a full

The African Development Bank (AfDB)

Morocco.

spectrum of products and services -

monetary union within the EAC trading bloc.

has commissioned a US$25mn Pan-African Infrastructure Development Fund (PAIDF 2), which will invest in power, transport,

including remote workforce The Actis Energy 3 fund will be invested in electrical generation projects in Africa, Latin America and Asia (PHOTO: gc85/sxc.hu)

accommodation, facilities management and medical support.

water and sanitation, information and healthcare infrastructure projects across

Partnership prioritises Mozambican developments

the continent; South Africa’s Harith

Absa Bank Ltd and Sumitomo Mitsui

General Partners, whose portfolio

Banking Corporation are developing

includes the Lake Turkana Wind Power

further business collaboration; their latest

Project in Kenya and the Henri Konan

agreement signed in Maputo,

Bédié Toll Bridge in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire,

Mozambique, focuses on the development

has been appointed as manager of the

of Mozambique’s natural resources,

fund.

infrastructure and water security.

communication technologies (ICT) and

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NEWS

Bulletin / Mining Anglo American set to finance Ferrex’s iron ore project in Gabon

Aureus Mining secures loan facility for gold project in Liberia

Noble Group to loan Resource Generation US$65mn for South African coal project

Anglo American and its subsidiary Kumba

Aureus Mining has signed a US$88mn

Hong Kong-based Noble Group has agreed

Iron Ore Limited have signed a two-year

project finance loan facility deal with South

to lend South African miner Resource

agreement to finance African mining explorer

Africa’s Nedbank and Rand Merchant Bank,

Generation US$65mn to develop the

Ferrex for the Mebaga iron ore project in

to aid with the development of its New

US$480mn Boikarabelo coal project, which is

Gabon; Anglo American, which owns nearly

Liberty Gold Project, which covers a licence

located in the Waterberg region of South

70 per cent of Kumba Iron Ore Limited, has

area of 457 sq km and has been estimated to

Africa and has been scheduled to commence

aims to stir up its dwindling iron ore business

contain more than 1.14mn ounces of gold

production in 2015; Resource Generation

in the West African country and will manage

reserves, located within the Bea Mountain

managing director Paul Jury said that the

the exploration work, if the deal is approval

mining licence in Liberia; the project finance

completion of the loan arrangements had

by board of directors from both sides and the

loan facility will be supported by South

removed the remaining major gap in the

government of Gabon.

Africa’s Export Credit Insurance

company's funding plans for the project,

Corporation (ECIC) and will have a term of

which has been touted to have an initial

six years, with the first tranche of the loan

output of six million tonnes.

drawn before April 2014.

Base Titanium to export zircon from Kenyan mining project

Anglo American hopes to increase its iron ore output in Gabon (PHOTO: Peter Craven)

Zimplats to start US$470 million mining project in Zimbabwe Despite announcing plans to close its Rukodzi

Mining company Base Titanium has applied

mine in Zimbabwe, platinum mining

for a permit to export products from its Kwale

company Zimplats has announced it will

Mineral Sands mining project in Kenya, with

invest US$470mn in opening a new mine in

Base Titanium general manager for external

the country, after Zimplats CEO Alex

affairs and development Joe Schwarz stating

Mhembere said Rukodzi had become too

that the company had spoken to Kenya’s

expensive to operate and that the new Portal

Ministry of Mining and hoped to send the first

Five mine would replace the mine; Zimplats,

shipment of the material to Japan shortly;

which currently operates the Mupfuti,

located 50km south of Mombasa, the Kwale

Rukodzi, Bimha and Ngwarati mines in the

Mineral Sands Project has a mine life of 13

country, produces more than 5100 kg of

years and Base Titanium began operations at

platinum, 4110 kg of palladium, 450 kg of

the mine in October 2013, announcing plans

rhodium and 565 kg of gold a year.

to produce 330,000 tonnes of ilmenite, 80,000

Tanzania sets up new mining company for Tulawaka Gold Mine project

tonnes of rutile and 30,000 tonnes of zircon per annum.

Octogenerian EJ Holtz celebrates 40 years at Multotec Multotec founder Ernst Joachim (EJ) Holtz is

The Tanzanian government has set up a new

celebrating 40 years at the company, having

company in Dar es Salaam to explore licenses

seen it grow to become one of South Africa’s

around the Tulawaka Gold Mine and manage

most successful mining service and

the project in the Kagera Region; Tanzania’s

equipment supply businesses, with 40-plus

minister for energy and minerals, Sospeter

metallurgists and more than 2,000

Muhongo, said the new company

employees; Holtz still fulfils the role of

STAMIGOLD, which is owned by Tanzania's

chairman of the board, while his son Thomas

State Mining Cooperation (STAMICO), was

sits at the helm and continues the tradition of

established in order to make the Tulawaka Gold Mine profitable again.

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WEB SELECTION

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Glencore increases stake in Mutanda mining APR Energy gains extension of power deal in Botswana Anglo-Swiss commodity trading and mining company Glencore Xstrata has increased its indirect interest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) copper miner Mutanda Mining for US$430mn. Mutanda is a high-grade copper and cobalt producer, with its operations located in the province of Katanga, in Congo. The remaining equity in Mutanda – 31 per cent – is held by a subsidiary of Fleurette Properties.

Glencore Xstrata acquired a 54.5 per cent interest in Mutanda last year, receiving at the time a put and call option agreement for the additional 14.5 per cent stake. It was also recently granted regulatory approval to purchase the right to export an additional 6.5 million tonnes through the Richards Bay Coal Terminal from BHP Billiton’s Energy Coal South Africa. http://www.africanreview.com/construction-a-mining/

Kenya scours for investors for geothermal power project The Kenyan government has planned to construct three power plants to exploit steam in the Rift Valley, the Geothermal Development Company (GDC) has revealed.

The GDC said it will drill 120 wells in the first stage of the project, with the three plants expected to generate 300MW of power by 2018.

Suitable investors for the project will be expected to bring in a total of US$400mn for the development. http://www.africanreview.com/energy-a-power/power-generation/

AfDB signs US$100mn deal to support private sector growth in Africa Japan has entered into a US$100mn loan agreement with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support the growth of Africa's economy.

The deal was signed by Dr Donald Kaberuka, AfDB President, and Juichi Takahara, ambassador of Japan to Tunisia.

The agreement is the fourth loan to the AfDB under the Enhanced AfDB President, Dr Donald Kaberuka, Private Sector Assistance (EPSA) said a US$100mn loan will help support for Africa Initiative that the two private sector growth in Africa have signed. http://www.africanreview.com/financial/banking-a-finance/

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Power solutions provider APR Energy has extended its existing 70MV diesel power module contract in Botswana for a further 12month period.

The US-based company has been supporting the Botswana Power Corporation, the national electric utility, through the provision of its turnkey diesel power modules since late 2009.

"The extension reflects our leading industry position in the region with 800MW of installed power capacity on the continent," said APR Energy CEO John Campion. http://www.africanreview.com/energy-a-power/power-generation/

New seaport to be built in Nigerian state The government of Abia State in Nigeria has announced plans to build a seaport at Obuaku city in Ukwa West, to boost commercial and economic activities in the region.

The Nigerian commissioner for information and strategy, Dr Eze Chikamnayo, said the sea port would be situated less than five miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

“This will be the first seaport in the south-east geopolitical zone. It will improve ease of doing business in the state as importers and exporters will not have to travel a long distance now to clear their goods,” Chikamnayo said. http://www.africanreview.com/transport-a-logistics/shipping/

The seaport is expected to improve ease of doing business for importers and exporters in Abia State, Nigeria. (PHOTO: Peter Hellebrand/sxc.hu)

Chinese firm to set up motorcycle manufacturing facility in Tanzania China’s Guangzhou Fekon has announced plans to set up a motorcycle manufacturing plant in Tanzania.

According to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, Guangzhou Fekon general manager Zheng Bing said procedures were currently underway to start constructing the factory.

Guangzhou Fekon and the Chinese ambassador to Tanzania, Dr Lu Youqing, recently donated 44 motorcycles to the Katavi Region. Tanzanian Prime Minister Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda said these vehicles would help with the development of the region. http://www.africanreview.com/ma nufacturing/industry/ www.africanreview.com

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Iveco

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Iveco plays its part in East African transport Iveco in the spotlight at the first Great Rift Valley Transport Infrastructure Summit in Tanzania

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veco participated in the first Great Rift Valley Transport Infrastructure Summit, which took place in Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania, on 4th and 5th December 2013. The summit was organised in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport in Tanzania. It was aimed at discussing the current transportation system in the East African region and its potential for development, in the company of the Tanzanian Minister of Transport, Harrison Mwakyembe.

The two-day event provided the opportunity to meet and discuss with experts and members of different ministerial infrastructure sectors of the Rift Valley Countries.

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ECONOMY

Ghana

For the well-being of the industry Investors in Ghana’s textile sector are on their knees as smugglers and pirates render the industry unprofitable

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he decision by Ghana to suspend the operations of a taskforce it previously set up to check counterfeiting, piracy and smuggling of textile prints into the country has not gone down well with industry operators. These operators have described the action as paying lip service to their quest for action to check the activities of smugglers and pirates who have virtually collapsed the local industry, rendering many citizens unemployed and investors wringing their hands in anguish over their losses.

Curbing illegal importation Members of the taskforce included the National Security Council, Ghana Union of Traders (GUTA) and the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industries (GNCCI). The organisation was officially inaugurated in August 2010 with an objective to curb the menace of illegal importation of pirated Ghanaian textile prints and to ensure that importers who engage in these activities are brought to justice.

The government took this decision using the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), which obliged it to take certain special border measures under Articles 51-60 of the TRIPs agreement, requiring WTO members to take action to prevent illegal goods from being released by the Customs Authority to importers. The TRIPs agreement also mandated governments not to allow infringed goods to enter the channel of commerce and also not allow their reexportation.

In an earlier attempt to stem the illegality, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI), in a 2005 directive designated the Takoradi Port as the ‘single corridor’ or the sole entry for the importation of textiles into Ghana.

As corollary to this policy, a committee was also set up to vet and approve all textile

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Government critics say the activities of smugglers and pirates have virtually collapsed the local industry.

designs prior to importation.

Though this was accepted by some industry operatives, the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) said the policy restricting imports to Takoradi resulted in an upsurge in smuggling with its attendant loss of revenue to government.

This resulted in a review which permitted the importation of these goods through all entry points on condition that the guidelines on importation of such goods were complied with.

Thus, from September 2013, all imports were allowed through Kotoka International Airport (KIA), Accra; Takoradi and Tema Ports all in an attempt to salvage an industry, which at its peak in the 1980s employed more than 30,000 workers directly - not to mention the distributors and itinerant hawkers and market traders.

The latest lay-off occurred in December 2013 at Printex, a local firm that declared 200 of its work force as surplus to requirements due to low patronage of its

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goods. Workers’ leader Francis Omari attributed this to the influx of cheap textiles on the market - especially from China - in addition to the high taxes and unavailability of markets.

In a surprising move, in late 2013 the government announced the suspension of the activities of the anti-piracy taskforce through Nii Lante Vanderpuije, deputy trade minister, following concerns expressed over the seizure of some 1,000 pieces of pirated textiles.

In the manufacturers’ best interests?

This decision has however not gone down well with the Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Union which has vehemently opposed the suspension, petitioning the Trade Ministry for the reinstatement of the taskforce.

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Ghana

ECONOMY

Secretary general of the Ghana Federation of Labour, Abraham Koomson, said, “If they can or will allow these goods to come from anywhere, from Aflao to Paga, or Burkina through Elubo, we don’t care. What we care about is making sure that those who steal our designs are arrested, that’s all.”

Koomson maintained however that industry workers will ensure nobody brings pirated designs into the country.

According to the workers who expressed their revulsion through their Textile Garment and Leather Employer’s Union, they were “shocked and gravely disappointed about the unilateral decision of MoTI to suspend the operations of the Anti-Textile Piracy Taskforce, without recourse to the stakeholders, thereby emboldening the perpetrators of the illicit trading activities in the country”.

Edwina Assan, president of the Spinnet Textiles and Garments Cluster, an association of small businesses in the manufacturing of textiles and garments for the domestic and export markets, indicated that these policies have made it almost impossible for Ghana’s textile products to compete with cheap imports from Asia.

“These textiles are also most of the time inferior, especially those from Asia, which are sold cheaper on the local market, making it difficult for the local textile products to compete,” she said.

Assan called for the enforcement of best practices and the upgrading of the quality of the industry’s production capacity in an effort to meet international standards.

“Due to these challenges, there has been drastic reduction in members’ production capacity by about 60 per cent, which has also affected employment levels,” she said.

According to Assan, the Ghana Standards Authority has failed to fully operate its taskforce for arresting smugglers due to inadequate resources and the porous nature of the country’s borders.

Assan urged the government to check corruption at the borders, designate only one port as the designation point for all imported textiles, to avoid the use of porous routes and also pay attention to the protection of intellectual property with regards to pirating of local textile designs.

She also called on the Ministry of Trade and Industry to facilitate the capacity building of small and medium textile firms to enable them to position themselves well and be competitive.

“Funds available for micro enterprises are still too expensive to access, with interest rates ranging from four per cent to 10 per cent per month being too high for small enterprises,” Assan said.

Manufacturers have expressed disappointment in the government, saying they were taken aback by the decision to disband the taskforce put in place to rid the market of pirated textile products.

According to them, the decision does not only subvert the growth of the local textile industry, but also constitutes a subtle endorsement of the illicit activities of traders in pirated textiles in the country. ■

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ECONOMY

Ghana

Texting to improve agribusiness A trial service being provided to farmers with mobile phones in Ghana is set to improve market access for small-scale food producers

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oodAfrica is a research and development Programme enhancing food security in West and East Africa. The objective of the Programme is to provide new knowledge and tools for researchers, decision makers and local farmers to improve local food security.

FoodAfrica is coordinated by MTT Agrifood Research Finland.

Improving market access with technology Economic growth and poverty reduction cannot solely be achieved through land productivity and food production but performance of the local market plays a decisive role in enhancing development. In order to support the poorest households it is necessary to improve infrastructure and performance of market institutions.

Additionally it is important to create opportunities for small-holders to access markets where they can sell their products in reasonable volumes and standards, provide inputs and credits, and provide economies of scale as well as bargaining power.

This is possible through new market information systems and services based on communication technologies (ICTs) such as internet and mobile phones which create opportunities to reduce the cost of linking buyers and sellers within the value chain, and thus raising farm income and reducing poverty.

Improving information flow in commodity value chains FoodAfrica Programme’s sixth Work Package will improve the flow of information in value chains of at least two commodities with the implementation of market information systems.

The Work Package will use randomised control trial (RCT) approach and difference-indifference methods to collect and analyse data in Uganda and Ghana.

For farmers, it is important that information like weekly harvesting locations, current prices in the nearby cities, lowest transportation cost of

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the products, and information about consumer appreciation, is being processed and provided.

Capacity building at different levels will be built into the research by including different stakeholders at various stages. Also an inventory of the current market information systems will be conducted, including the needs of each major actor in the value chain involving farmers, traders, processors, and other actors of the process.

WP6 will also estimate the impacts of improvements in agricultural market information of the value chain, and indirectly of rural income and poverty in the African countries. This information would help to guide investment priorities for the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other development agents.

Ghanaian farmers may expect better access to market information with mobile technologies (Photo: Trees for the Future)

Prices for products FoodAfrica’s approach is unique, compared to previous projects on using ICTs for farmers, in that the information provided is customized to the participating farmers’ specific needs.

Farmers benefit to the extent that it improves their knowledge about current prices in different markets and allows them to change their marketing behavior. Based on the information they receive via text messages, the farmers may find a market place, buyer or marketing time best suitable for them. All in all the farmers who are on top of things have a stronger position in the market and they might be able to negotiate better prices for their products. How much better off they are, is the question explored by the current testing phase.

The SMS’s include information about crops

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and varieties per region, seasonality, price details of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and list of stockists within the 10 kilometer radius, current market prices, forecast of market trends, weather information, transport prices from points of production and a list of buyers.

Literate farmers with mobile phones To be eligible for the service the farmers need to own a mobile phone and be literate. According to a baseline survey conducted by IFPRI, 59 per cent of Ghanaian households have a mobile phone, but few of them use it to obtain agricultural market information. Preliminary results of a similar survey done in Uganda shows that 70 percent of Ugandan farmer households have at least one functioning mobile phone.

Customised information on commodities FoodAfrica provides the service in co-operation with two local companies: Esoko and FITUganda. Both companies provide training and information to the participating farmers. In Ghana the training is done face to face but in Uganda it will be done over the phone. Most of the information after the training is delivered to the farmers via SMS messages.

The companies collect price data on various commodities in various markets. The farmers who participate in the pilot study testing the service, get SMS messages with prices of several commodities in several nearby markets. The information is customised so that each farmer gets info on the commodities and markets he is most interested in. The SMS delivery is automated, making use of a database that includes price info, phone numbers, and the preferences of each subscriber.

The pilot study is scheduled to run for approximately two years - until mid-2015. After this, a survey will be conducted by the FoodAfrica team where the effect and usefulness of the service for households will then be verified. ■ www.africanreview.com

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ECONOMY

Ghana

Modern roads to ease traffic Measures undertaken to improve highways and byways across the Ghanaian capital in a drive to deliver international standards of traffic management

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here are serious traffic jams in Accra every day because of a lack of proper infrastructure planning over the years.

One of the massive developments that the government is focusing its attention on, however, is the Ghanaian city’s road network, which it aims to develop to international standards to minimise traffic jams and incorporate improved drainage systems.

As pointed out recently by the mayor of Accra, Alfred Vanderpuije: “ Today nearly all transportation in Accra is by road, but 70 per cent of the vehicles carry only 30 per cent of the people – a trend which causes significant traffic jams during peak hours.

“Accra’s existing infrastructure is being put under increasing strain by an influx of new residents – the city’s population has expanded by over one million people – a 35 per cent increase in the past decade alone.

“We must therefore act today to ensure that the city’s systems – from transportation, to water, sanitation, energy, healthcare, public safety, education and administration – are able to accommodate and cope with this influx of new residents.”

It is in this vein that Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, recently attended a groundbreaking ceremony for construction of a three-tier interchange at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra. The project will cost US$102.3mn and is being jointly financed with credit from the Brazilian and Ghanaian governments. The project is scheduled to be completed within 24 months.

The contractors, M/S Queiroz Galvao Constucao from Brazil will also provide passenger sheds and drainage systems.

Landscaping and tree planting will be undertaken to improve the environment around the area with an additional provision of roads for future Bus Rapid Transit lanes.

There will also be a police post, a fire service post and an ambulance centre to be constructed under the interchange to

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The Kwame Nkrumah Circle

provide security and other emergency services for motorists and pedestrians.

Indeed, the Kwame Nkrumah Circle is a major arterial road network in Accra and is estimated to carry 84,000 vehicles a day. The project manager of M/S Queriroz Galvao, Alexandra De Vasconcelos Cutinho, said the first flyover of the interchange will take care of traffic from Ring Road Central to Ring Road West. Right opposite, an underpass is proposed with two lanes of traffic. The second flyover will connect the Akasanoma Road to Ring Road West.

Another key component of the interchange, he said, would be the provision of green strips and verges to serve as noise barriers that will reduce the level of noise pollution from vehicles and serve as a carbon sink also for aesthetics.

The acting director for the department of urban roads, Abass Awolu, indicated that the project could not have begun at a better time in view of the recurrent congestion of traffic at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, describing it as appalling and adding that the area could better be described as the transportation hub in Accra.

President Mahama pointed out that apart from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle project, the

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government would embark upon an expansion of the Tema Motorway into a sixlane road with an interchange at the Tema Motorway Roundabout.

Again, he announced that government would be finalising documentation for the dualisation of the Accra-Kumasi road, indicating that an interchange would be constructed at Kasoa in the Central Region to ease the traffic.

According to the minister of roads and highways, Alhaji Amin Amidu Sulemani, the Kwame Nkrumah Circle project was designed to address “the severe congestion, as well as high incidence of accidents involving pedestrians and vehicles, due to the long delays experienced at the intersection”.

The roads and highways minister added that the project would reduce average travel time for vehicles and pedestrians, reduce the incidence of flooding and mitigate the release of poisonous smoke from vehicles.

Sulemani also commended local road contractors for their significant contribution over the years to the expansion of road infrastructure from 37,000 km in 2000 to 68,000 km in 2012, representing an 80 per cent increase. ■ www.africanreview.com

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Kenya

ECONOMY

Reinvigorating Kenya’s growth K

enya’s economy is estimated to grow at five per cent in 2013, says the latest World Bank economic analysis.

The growth rate, supported by consumption and investment, is higher than the 4.6 per cent recorded in 2012.

“Maintaining a stable growth rate is encouraging as Kenyans celebrate their 50th independence anniversary,” said Diarietou Gaye, World Bank country director for Kenya.

A key message of this report is that Kenya has many achievements worth celebrating but there is ample room for improving the policy environment to amplify these achievements.

The growth momentum is expected to be sustained into 2014, with the growth rate

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projected to improve modestly to 5.1 per cent, according to the Kenya Economic Update for December 2013.

“Low inflation, fiscal discipline and a stable exchange rate are good indicators of favorable macroeconomic performance,” said Apurva Sanghi, the World Bank lead economist for Kenya.

“Better investment spending and budget execution rates will ensure that these macroeconomic gains are translated into microeconomic ones on the ground.”

The analysis shows that Kenya has made considerable progress in the past half century in many fronts, including in raising people’s average incomes and diversifying sources of

growth from agriculture.

Social indicators such as infant mortality and women fertility have also improved. But poverty and maternal deaths remain high, while secondary school enrollment and learning outcomes are below potential.

The report also highlights the infrastructure and other bottlenecks that impact on the cost of doing business.

John Randa, the Bank’s senior country economist for Kenya and one of two lead authors of the report, said, “Strengthening structural reforms in the transport sector and public financial management will improve opportunities for higher output and productivity.” ■

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ECONOMY

Nigeria

The time for change is now Nigeria’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment, Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga addresses practically the entire economy - so, who better to talk to about Nigeria’s potential?

Do you hold with the opinion that we are now seeing a new Africa?

Let me start by saying quickly that in Africa we have seen a big shift in power, in terms of what Africa was known for and what it was believed to be, as a place full of problems, poverty, disease. It has become that last frontier in terms of global investment and the reasons are clear.

Between 2001 and 2010, African economies were six out of the 10 fastest-growing economies in the world.

The IMF predicts that between 2011 and 2015, seven of the 10 fastest economies will be from Africa. The reason for this is that we have had continued political and economic stability over a fairly long period of time.

When you look at the macro-economic environment today, Africa is one of the best-run in terms of the debt to GDP ratio for example, the growth is there, so we’ve seen a new Africa. We are seeing Africa in a place it has never been.

Does this growth go beyond the global commodities’ boom?

Africa for many decades was the provider of the world’s raw materials.

You can take Nigeria as an example, with its huge oil and gas reserves. But there is much more – for example, look at agriculture.

We have 84mn ha of land where almost everything and anything can grow, just like Brazil, but only 40 per cent of that arable land is cultivated. And what do we do with the products? Currently, we export cocoa beans, cotton and sugar cane as primary commodities with no value addition.

In the various solid minerals sector, we have 44 different minerals in commercial quantities, including iron ore, bauxite, gold, etc, all in abundance in the country. We are the 11th largest producer of oil in terms of reserves of crude oil and we’re in the top nine when it comes to gas reserves, yet for decades we have been exporting the oil and gas for others to refine and process. We export the primary commodity, and they process it, add a profit margin and re-export it back to Africa. We buy petroleum products with the proceeds we get from crude oil.

That doesn’t make any sense; that is a crazy economic model. That is what Africa has done for decades: now we have to shift the paradigm.

Can you describe the approach you are taking towards resource value addition?

Africa today is saying to the world “we have the resources”. Look at the four or five main ingredients that any investor is looking for. An investor needs the capital to do business; an investor needs the knowhow, the technology and needs the raw materials, the market and a return on investment.

Now the capital and technology can move anywhere in the world but the raw materials market you cannot move. That is what Africa has in abundance. So the time to change and move from a poor to a rich continent is now and the only way to do that is value addition industrialisation.

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Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga

We require visionary leadership with clear goals and objectives on where the continent should be heading” - Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga”

History tells us that no country has managed to move from being a poor to a rich nation by relying on exporting raw materials – which was what Africa has done for decades, with no strong industrial and services sector.

How do you foster that process?

Firstly, we require visionary leadership with clear goals and objectives on where the continent should be heading.

The next thing is to introduce sustainable well-thought through policies that will promote investments into the real sector of the economy, which is what we are slowly doing in Nigeria.

Last year we passed a policy regarding the refining of sugar cane.

Up to then we were importing 97 per cent of sugar we consumed.

But refining sugar cane in the country not only creates a lot of jobs, but from the waste we now produce ethanol and animal feed. We looked at Sudan and saw how the sugar industry has supported the Sudan economy.

In early October we passed a new auto policy, and within a week Nissan announced that it wanted to invest in the country. And Nigeria reached an agreement with Nissan that impacted at least nine different www.africanreview.com

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ECONOMY

Nigeria

economic sectors. That is where you start shifting the paradigm.

You see, competitiveness is not about having the raw materials, competitiveness is what you do with the raw materials, how you create and add value and in that process create jobs. When you simply export primary raw materials you export jobs as well, and create employment in other countries.

Has working within the private sector informed your way of leading a ministry?

Yes. If you work in any environment for a length of time you will imbibe the culture, the attributed values of that environment, and that will shape you and affect your views and how you react and do things. So there’s no doubt that having worked abroad, with Ernst & Young and Goldman Sachs, with such brilliant people around you, you have to learn different skills and knowledge to be successful in those environments.

These are the same attributes you need to try to reform and make changes in the country, so there’s no doubt that my experience in the private sector has been a big driving force and has been beneficial to my new role in government.

What will the Nissan investment involve?

Nigeria has 170mn people and has the potential to be the third largest nation in the world by 2017, after India and China. It’s part of the 300mn population in Ecowas.

Now the way this industry will develop is, to begin with, assembling what are called fully knocked down kits and then start increasing local content over time, so that’s the programme.

We envisage Nissan partnering with a local assembler and gradually over time increasing production.

The beauty about Nigeria is that we can build for all three domestic, regional and export markets. Africa’s largest automotive manufacturer, South Africa, has had to focus on exports because they have a much smaller population.

With Nigeria we are producing for the local market, because it’s a big country, a young population with an average age of 17.5 years, with a middle-class of between 25mn and 35mn people, so there is a large local market to supply. But our ambition is not just the local market, it’s also the export markets. We want to export to the rest of Africa and overseas.

I want to add that the auto policy is also about spare parts. We want to develop the auto spare parts industry, to build an auto components manufacturing cluster. The spare parts will supply the assemblers in the country, but at the same time we’ll be exporting as well as supplying the domestic market.

I understand you are also partnering with Brazil in developing the auto industry?

Yes. You see, scale is very important and that is why we are partnering with Brazil to replicate the same auto school they have in Brazil. They have done the design already, which I saw for myself. Now the auto school is going to do two things; it’s going to teach the servicing and maintaining cars as well as about producing the spare parts to meet international standards.

A factory will be located next to it to provide internship programmes. So it’s a very holistic way of looking at developing an auto industry in the country.

There have been some big announcements on SMEs recently ...

Yes, and there’ll be more coming too. In 2010 there were 17.5mn SMEs in the country employing close to 32mn people, so that’s a huge part of the economy.

I believe that there are only three main things that they need: access

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Aliko Dangote

to affordable capital, business development services and the right infrastructure support to reduce their cost of doing business in terms of power, electricity. We are addressing all these things.

On the issue of power, what is the current situation?

The reason we are where we are today is because of the underinvestment in power over decades, so it has been privatised. President Jonathan has taken this bold step. For the first time in the history of Nigeria, we have successfully privatised the power sector, which means that the 11 distribution companies, the seven generating companies have all been sold to the private sector. They are now in the hands of the private sector, which will improve efficiency and of course attract more investments into the sector.

By the end of Q1 this year we expect 10,000MW of power. So we have the likes of Siemens, Daewoo, Electrobrass, GE, China Power all working with us to generate power. Between them, in total, we’re talking about having an installed minimum of 40,000MW of power within a decade. That can be translated into about US$40bn of investment.

We expect that the power sector will become the next telecoms sector. Speak to the people at a telco like MTN for example: Nigeria is the most profitable area for them, and that sector has been growing at the rate of 30 per cent a year since it was privatised. We expect to see the same thing in power.

Power generation today stands at maybe 10-15 per cent of what we need, so there’s room for big investments, such as the US$1bn investment GE is bringing to the country.

We’re seeing other groups coming to Nigeria to produce transformers, and another group coming to produce transmission equipment. It’s a new industry that is progressing well.

Do you believe the investment climate in Nigeria is improving?

The latest UNCTAD report ranks Nigeria as number four globally in terms of the return on investment. Nigeria’s average return on investments is 35.5 per cent; the global average is about 6.7 per cent.

I always point out that the richest man in Africa is a Nigerian. He’s called Aliko Dangote, and Aliko Dangote made all his money in Nigeria. That fact tells you a lot about the country and the investment opportunities that are there. ■ www.africanreview.com

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TECHNOLOGY

Mobile

A communication revolution for farmers Mobile telecommunications can help growers, buyers, distributors and exporters to trade with each other more efficiently than ever before

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here are around 500mn smallholdings actively working in fewer than two hectares of land each, and yet more than a third of the world’s population relies on their output for survival. The dependence on such farms is even higher in sub-Saharan Africa, where their output accounts for 80 per cent of all the food produced here for local/regional consumption. Improving the productivity of these all important small-hold farmers is crucial if the future food security demands of an ever-growing human population are to be met. This productivity is, thankfully, the focus of a number of global initiatives, which are looking to the mobile phone as a potential ‘saviour of mankind’.

Mobile telecommunications are set to have a profound impact on women in countries where, in some regions, they account for as much as 70 per cent of the total agri-workforce and are, effectively, responsible for producing almost half the world’s food. It’s no wonder, then, that across Africa, many regional mobile phone operators as well as organisations like USAID, Nokia, Vodafone, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the GSM Association (GSMA) and others, are forging ahead with research and projects, which recognise the importance to future food security of putting mobiles into the hands of African farmers.

Connecting the unconnected Over the next five years, the mobile communications sector is expecting global mobile subscriber growth to be driven by demand from among an estimated 1.8bn unconnected people in developing countries. It will come as no surprise, therefore, that a huge majority of these would be found in remote, rural locations where they depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. To the mobile industry this is a significant untapped market; for the rural farmer, a gathering revolution.

Mobile telecommunications are set to have a profound impact on women in countries where, in some regions, they account for as much as 70 per cent of the total agri-workforce

Projections galore By 2020, the world’s population is expected to grow by 750mn and the impact of such things as climate change and water scarcity will be acutely felt. With this fast-approaching, potentially bleak future, action needs to be taken now to improve the efficiency of food production and its distribution — a 70 per cent increase in that production is projected as that needed by the time we reach 2050, when the Earth’s population will have hit 9.2bn.

Among the organisations actively pursuing mobile agriculture is mobile communication group Vodafone, which commissioned management consultancy Accenture to conduct a study in 2011 on the viability and potential of mobile communications in agriculture.

The research looked at how, by giving farmers access to basic mobile financial services and agri-information services as well as providing new agricultural techniques and market information, this could lead to farmers securing improved prices for crops and higher returns on their investments. With an ever-improving, harvest-byharvest income the study said that these farmers would be able to invest in better seeds, fertiliser, pesticides and agro-chemicals, and even have more time to generate income from elsewhere.

The report also added that mobile financial payment services, together with access to mobile agricultural information services, would account for 75 per cent of the total increase in agricultural income’ for these farmers.

Additional incremental income for farmers of US$52bn by 2020 was also projected along with water savings amounting to around six per cent in many regions, through the use of mobile agriculture services. As for the mobile operators themselves, they can expect revenues from over 174mn fee-paying connections to mobile services per annum.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Lesotho and Mozambique were cited in relation to weather-related information services delivered to farmers over mobile phones, which the report said could potentially help achieve a 10 per cent, or more, savings in total freshwater usage and contribute to additional agricultural income of US$34bn across those countries in 2020. Such weather forewarning will help farmers plan their planting, irrigation and harvesting schedules, to avoid using water when it’s about to rain or quickly harvesting crops if damaging storms are predicted. Just looking at the sky for clues is a thing of the past!

An NGO view While the Accenture report was largely welcomed by NGOs of the likes of Oxfam, it also stated that the report only went part of the way in its analysis.

The NGO wanted to see future mobile research emphasis placed on

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Mobile TECHNOLOGY government safety net systems, gender equality and new inclusive agricultural practices, to see how mobile technology could support the poorest and most food insecure small farmers as well as encouraging mobile operators like Vodafone to fully address barriers to the use of mobile technology affecting women. They also want mobile technology to address agricultural adaptations to climate change.

Mobile initiatives Agricultural development is one of the largest initiatives of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has so far dedicated over US$2bn to such efforts, with sub-Saharan Africa one of the regions of chief focus.

The foundation’s approach is to listen to farmers in order to address specific needs about the crops they want to grow, eat and sell, and understand challenges that may be specific to individuals or individual communities.

And with the support of the Gates’ Foundation and USAID, the GSMA’s mAgri programme is probably one of the most important initiatives currently active.

A mobile future for Africa’s farmers There are now far too many mobile agriculture initiatives and projects underway across Africa than can be mentioned in detail in this short article, but before closing mention should be given to the Nokia Life service, which already delivers education, health, and agriculture services to 90mn users in China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria and is expected to expand into other countries during 2013. Africa’s smallhold farmers are set to benefit greatly from the attentions of the world’s mobile communications sector — as is that sector from the needs of Africa’s farming community.

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Access to basic mobile financial services and agri-information services as well as providing new agricultural techniques and market information could lead to farmers securing improved prices for crops and higher returns on their investments

Nigeria’s initiative In January 2013, Nigeria’s Business Day reported that the government was to give around 10mn phones to the country’s farmers in what it said was a ‘bid to boost agricultural production in the country’. The information was said to have originated from the federal government’s office of Ibukun Odusote, permanent secretary in the federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The report said those receiving the handsets would have access to information on delivery dates, farming seasons, fertiliser, product prices and scarcity periods. ■ Tim Guest

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TECHNOLOGY

Condition Monitoring

Prevent unexpected machine failures The provision of specific services for maintenance of machines, which can also help increase their shelf life

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ven the most comprehensive maintenance programme cannot stop faults developing in machinery but one can ensure that faults do not lead to unexpected failures before your next scheduled maintenance outage.

Condition monitoring puts you in the driving seat to actively prevent breakdowns and optimise maintenance resources where and when they’re needed.

Condition monitoring assesses the health of a machine by periodic monitoring and analysis of data obtained during operation trending the results against levels of acceptability. Efficient, non-intrusive to the production process and with the proven potential to save thousands of dollars in secondary damage, lost production and unnecessary maintenance — condition monitoring is the proven, preventative maintenance approach for early fault detection and prevention in all types of production machinery.

Monition has the expertise in the application of the various technologies to combine a number of condition monitoring tools to provide the most effective monitoring package for companies’ operations. Monition has introduced the benefits of condition monitoring and

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Monition has the expertise in the application of the various technologies to combine a number of condition monitoring tools to provide the most effective monitoring package for your operations

predictive maintenance to organisations both large and small, in practically every conceivable industry.

Monitoring with multiple technologies Condition monitoring provides detailed information about the health of plant machinery, alerting maintenance personnel when components or lubrication starts to deteriorate so that preventative maintenance can be appropriately scheduled to avoid costly downtime and expensive emergency repairs.

As the old saying goes ‘Two heads are better than one’, modern condition monitoring encompasses many technologies such as vibration analysis, thermography, tribology, electrom motor

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testing and laser shaft alignment. Many of Monition’s clients now enjoy the precision level of analysis afforded when two or more condition monitoring technologies such as vibration analysis and tribology are combined.

The benefits of such a highlysophisticated, prognostic maintenance tool are that it can be employed to not only recognise developing faults within a machine, but to identify factors within a machine that will cause these faults to develop in the first place.

The bigger picture is that a combinedtechnology approach can be utilised to dramatically increase machine operating life, productivity and ultimately, business profitability. ■ www.africanreview.com

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Cummins Power Generation

ADVERTORIAL

Cummins tackles South Africa’s

carbon footprint Cummins diesel gensets are providing back-up power supply to the Kathu PV power plant in South Africa’s Northern Cape

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ack-up power supply solutions are being provided to the appointed contractor at the R3bn (US$92.2mn), 75MW Kathu PV power plant in the Northern Cape by the South African division of Cummins - a global leader in the manufacture, sales and servicing of diesel engines and related technology. The Kathu PV power plant forms part of South Africa’s ongoing renewable energy programme, which aims to diversify the country’s energy mix and reduce its carbon footprint. Once completed in 2014, it is expected to be one of the world’s largest PV power plants with a single-axis tracking system.

It will have the capacity to generate 146GWh of clean solar power into the national grid, which is enough to meet the energy needs of more than 40,000 people based on average national per capita consumption, while displacing the equivalent of 50,000 tonnes of annual CO2 emissions. While development of the Kathu PV power plant continues, Cummins SA was commissioned to supply the appointed contractor at the project with a total of nineteen 17kVA single phase generator sets, as part of a supply agreement that began in July 2013, and is due for completion in early 2014.

Optimum performance Cummins SA general manager for power products sales, Cletus Makombe noted that the Cummins commercial generator set is a fully integrated power generation system that provides optimum performance and reliability for stationary applications.

"Although Cummins is traditionally recognised as an engine manufacturer, power generation is a key focus area for the business," said Makombe. "The single phase generator sets are being supplied to ensure a reliable backup of energy for the onsite motor control centres. This project is evidence that Cummins is fully capable of supplying backup power for hybrid solutions to the African energy sector."

Cummins Power Generation is recognised as a world leader in the design and manufacture of preintegrated generator sets, ranging from 8kVA to 3,300kVA, and is able to meet energy needs that include; continuous, prime, peaking, standby, cogeneration or a complete turnkey power plant.

‘Power of One’ Makombe stated that all major components including engine, alternator, transfer switches and control systems are designed and manufactured according to the highest standards of quality set by Cummins - an integrated approach known as the 'Power of One'.

"The Cummins Power of One approach ensures that each element of the pre-integrated power solution works in harmony from the start," he said. "The result of this is smaller equipment footprints, reduced installation time and higher system reliability."

Cummins Power Generation boasts more than 90 years of experience in international power generation. The company's range of permanently installed and mobile power systems have been used across Africa by various hospitals, factories, office buildings, hotels, casinos and telecommunication centres - for both long and shortterm standby power needs. ■

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POWER

Solar energy

Africa goes for the sun Why solar energy, along with other renewable energy systems, promises the means to close the continent’s energy gap

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he takeover of Power One by ABB, the world’s biggest supplier of industrial motors and power grids, was proof positive of the conventional energy sector’s growing interest in renewable energy systems, especially for developing economies.

Although ABB stated it had no interest in buying into the solar panel market, in its acquisition of Power One it has, at a stroke, become a world leader as a supplier of solar inverters. These are required to enable the power that is generated by photovoltaic panels to be fed into grids.

The photovoltaic (PV) cells that make up the panels transform sunlight directly into electrical power. At the heart of every cell is a semiconductor that usually consists of silicon and exploits the photovoltaic effect.

When layers of semiconductors are arranged on top of each other in a particular structure, the incidence of light (photons) creates free charges that are able to flow away as electrons via an electrical conductor.

The direct current generated in this way can be used to run electrical devices or stored in batteries. If it is converted into alternating current with solar invertors, it can also be fed into power

grids. And PV is scalable, the technology can power a wrist watch, run stand-alone applications such as traffic lights, or be used collectively in vast fields of solar panels to produce megawatts of power.

Around the world, the take-up of solar energy from PV cells has been dramatic. In 2010, solar cells with a potential capacity of 17GW were installed around the world. Compare that to the 7.3GW installed the previous year, and how today more than 40GW of PV solar has been rolled out, seven times more than five years ago. In China alone, it is anticipated that the country will have, by 2015, 150GW of wind and solar capacity. Global production of PV cells has doubled each year from 2005 to 2010 while costs have also fallen by 50 per cent over this period.

There are two countries in Africa at the forefront of developing their solar industries. These are Morocco and the continent’s biggest economy, South Africa.

Speaking at the 2013 Energy Indaba in February, held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesbug’s northern suburbs, Dipuo Peters, South Africa’s minister of energy referred to her government’s establishment of more than US$74,000 national green fund. More than US$37,000 was invested in green economy projects and have been already approved for municipalities, state institutions, community organisations and the private sector.

Solar power has a central role in South Africa’s bid to achieve energy self-sufficiency and the country’s ability to promote green growth.

The massive rollout of 315,000 solar hot water geysers, with 70 per cent of them given to poor households, is a case in point – and just part of the government’s target of distributing one million water heaters by the end of next year.

Water heaters (and solar ovens), are perhaps the most common of 7applications of solar thermal energy worldwide. But these, and PV panels, are just two of the three solar energy systems that can Solar-powered traffic lights have been rolled out in South Africa

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POWER

Solar Energy

Nedbank recently launched South Africa's first renewable energy powered bank branch

generate energy from one of Africa’s most abundant resources – the amount of sunlight that falls on the continent.

The sun delivers more energy to the earth in just one hour than is used worldwide in one year, and Africa enjoys the highest solar irradiation in the world. “If harnessed properly,” Professor A Sambo, the CEO of the Energy Commission of Nigeria told the

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Energy Indaba, “solar energy, falling freely from Africa’s skies to reach everywhere on the continent without transmission lines could meet all the electricity needs of Africa.”

The third of the three solar systems is known as concentrated solar power (CSP). There are, essentially, four basic CSP types: the parabolic trough collector; the Fresnel collector; the solar power plant; and the dish system.

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The parabolic system uses curved mirrors that are up to six metres wide and 150 metres long to concentrate sunlight onto a central absorber pipe containing a special oil. That oil carries the absorbed heat to an exchanger, heating water to create steam to drive a generator that produces electricity.

The technology behind the parabolic type of CSP is quite well known, having been utilised since the late 1980s. This system appears to be the one most favoured currently, with Morocco building the first stage of a huge 500MW CSP site using this technology at Ouarzazate. It is being described as part of the hugely ambitious Desertec project which aims to utilise renewable energy from the across the whole of North Africa. This energy, derived from solar and wind, will not only feed domestic markets but also supply southern Europe via subsea cables across the Mediterranean.

Whether Desertec will get off the ground has been put into doubt by the seismic political events that have impacted the region over the past two years, which are yet to fully resolved. Political support is deemed a vital prerequisite for the Desertec project, and that challenge, it seems, is unlikely to be achieved in the short-term. ■

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Plant

POWER

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chneider Electric and DONG Energy are working together on a technological and commercial partnership for a more sustainable energy supply of remote islands in Africa. The ambition is to enable African electric network operators of remote or isolated island grids to increase the share of renewable used while maintaining grid stability and reliability for consumers.

Of the world’s fifty-two Small Island Developing States (SIDS), six are in Africa: Cape Verde; Comoros; Guinea Bissau; Mauritius; São Tomé and Príncipe; and Seychelles. The smallest, Seychelles, is composed of 115 small islands representing the largest number among African SIDS; the largest, Guinea Bissau, comprises 80 islands.

In Africa alone, at least 300 remote islands distanced from mainland grids exist. These isolated island grids are often heavily dieseldependent, incurring high electricity costs and subject to fluctuating fuel prices. This is a barrier for local economic development, for improving living standards and for reducing carbon emissions. Many island utility operators aim to replace diesel with renewable

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generation to reduce costs and reach renewable targets. However the main challenge of integrating intermittent renewable energy is the ensuing complexity of balancing the grid and maintaining reliability and stability. In effect this can cap the amount of renewable energy which can be efficiently integrated.

With Dong Energy’s virtual power plant technology and Schneider Electric’s market-leader distribution grid field devices and management systems, the partners will address these crucial environmental issues. The aim is to create a new platform offering realtime generation and demand forecasting, monitoring and control.

“Dong Energy has developed a virtual power plant system called Power Hub, which aggregates loads and generation capacity for network flexibility through a software platform. The system has already successfully demonstrated its capability and value in optimizing, balancing and improving the stability of remote microgrids at the Faroe Islands,” said Evert den Boer, senior vice president in DONG Energy. ■

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CONSTRUCTION

CONEXPO-ConAgg

Presenting portfolios to improve projects CONEXPO-CON/AGG to feature an array of technologies and services to support a multitude of job types

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ith plenty to learn and much to commit to, CONEXPO-CON/AGG is as vibrant as ever, with its American host city Las Vegas entertaining participants between 4 and 8 March 2014.

There is an outstanding spread of new equipment, new technologies and new services to assess and acquire. Terex Finlay, for example, is launching the 684 tracked mobile inclined screen, a highly versatile and adaptable machine engineered and built for working in quarrying, mining, construction and demolition debris, topsoil, recycling, sand, gravel, coal and aggregate applications.

It presents, also, the J-1170 primary mobile jaw crusher - a high performance primary mobile jaw crusher built around the renowned and aggressive Terex 1100mm x 700mm (44” x 28”) jaw crusher, with a proven track record in recycling, aggregate production and mining applications.

Among several new cranes that Manitowoc will feature at CONEXPO 2014 is the Shuttlelift CD5520. This next-generation industrial crane represents a complete redesign of the current product offering, and boasts the highest capacity and longest reach in the class.

The Shuttlelift CD5520 has an 18 t (20 USt) capacity and 16.6 metre (54 ft 6 in) foursection, full-power boom. Thomas McCallum, director of industrial crane sales and crane remarketing for Manitowoc, says the powerful crane is the first in a new generation of industrial cranes.

“With this project, we completely redesigned the industrial crane from the ground up,” he said. “The end result is a wholly innovative, superior machine that builds on the Grove and Shuttlelift tradition.”

Portfolios and purposes Apart from its offroad portfolio of worldrecord holding self-propelled modular transporters (SPMT) and the robust

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Bergkamp’s trailer-mounted SP spray patcher

industrial lift and shipyard transporters, the TII Group offers a huge variety of products tailored to the customers demands in transport on public roads and beyond. The dual lane trailer WideCombi as well as the HighwayCombi and the HighwayTrailer perfectly match these demands. Modular systems like the Nicolas MHD, the Scheuerle-Kamag K25 which can be coupled with competitor brands or the Scheuerle InterCombi allow all sorts of variations for every imaginable transport purpose.

Bergkamp provides a cost-effective solution to maximising fleet utilisation year round with their SP Series Spray Injection Pothole Patcher. The company offers a full line of truck-mounted, trailermounted and continuous slurry seal and micro surfacing pavers and equipment, as well as spray injection and all-in-one pothole patching equipment.

Caterpillar will present its latest portfolio

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at Caesars Palace, as it strengthens its partnership with Trimble to expand solutions and service offerings for customers globally. Building on a partnership that spans nearly 20 years, the new agreements enhance both companies’ efforts to serve global customers better from project design through completion, with critical technologies and services focused on fleet management and site productivity across a contractor’s entire equipment fleet, regardless of brand.

“Caterpillar has worked with Trimble since 1996 to optimize site productivity through a revolutionary suite of grade control solutions, differentiated by industry-leading machine integration straight out of our manufacturing plants, mixed fleets’ aftermarket systems and through our worldclass distribution network,” said Hans Haefeli, Caterpillar vice president with responsibility for Cat’s Advanced Components and Systems Division. ■ www.africanreview.com

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CONSTRUCTION

Roads

Building a business, from zero to supremo Increased investment in roadbuilding and other forms of construction in Zambia have generated higher demand for aggregate

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ccording to Jignesh Soni, owner of Zamm Imports, “Zambia is experiencing a construction and road building boom like never before and we expect that the current high demand for aggregate will only increase. We are also crushing a substantial amount of limestone for the mining industry for use in leaching plants and smelters.”

Zamm Imports has to be one of the most impressive success stories in Africa’s crushing and screening industry, having achieved spectacular growth over the last 48 months.

Wayne Warren, Africa sales manager at Pilot Crushtec International, has a view to offer on the company. He said, “Zamm Imports has consistently supported us, as from the very beginning they saw our ability to deliver the right products on time. By products, we mean not only complete plants but replacement parts, products and technical advice. The trust factor has been predominant since our relationship began four years ago.”

Promotion and growth The adage, ‘It pays to advertise’, has never been more pertinent because at the time Zamm Imports had decided to capitalise on the snowballing demand for growth in local infrastructure when they came across a Pilot Crushtec advert.

“The company was looking for a turnkey plant that would produce high volumes of aggregate, right from the word go... Jignesh Soni regularly travels across Africa and read one of our market-related advertisements in an inflight magazine,” said Warren. He approached the Jet Park-based company for advice and it was not long before his enterprise took delivery of, what was at the time, the largest crushing and screening plant ever to be produced by Pilot Crushtec International.

The onsite installation, commissioning and training process reinforced the company’s confidence in a product offering which more

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Zamm Imports impressive plant with all crushing equipment supplied by Pilot Crushtec International

than met the performance expectations of the industry newcomer. Since then, the partnership has grown from strength to strength.

Soni said his first two crushing and screening plants are operating in Ndola and Kitwe, while a new plant is undergoing commissioning in Luanshya.

Soni pointed out that Pilot Crushtec International has been instrumental in the gains Zamm Imports has made in the sale of aggregate and crushed limestone in the recent past.

As the current owner of a fleet of crushing and screening equipment worth some R42mn (US$3.8mn), he has full confidence in his supplier.

“Pilot Crushtec International has been vital to our success. It understands our needs and consequently designed plants to meet our requirements. Above all, its products are robust, reliable and replacement parts are immediately available, by air if necessary,” he said.

The modular plant concept provides operators like Zamm Imports with a serious strategic advantage in a country the size of

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Zambia. They are relatively easy to disassemble and transport to the next project, which typically may be well over a thousand kilometres’ distance from the previous site.

Zamm Imports’ impressive inventory of Pilot Crushtec International modular equipment includes: three Pilot Modular/TRIO MJ3042 Jaw Crushers, a Pilot Modular/TRIO MC90 Cone Crusher, three Pilot Modular/TRIO TD6118 Triple Deck Screens, a Pilot Modular MFH25 Feed Hopper, a Pilot Modular/TRIO DD4815 Screen, a Pilot Modular DD3615 Screen, one Pilot Modular/TRIO MC51 Cone Crusher and a Pilot Modular/TRIO MC130 Cone Crusher and a Pilot Modular Impact Crusher IC4054. The fleet is rounded off with a Rubble Master RM80 crusher.

Materials handing is facilitated by an armada of Pilot Modular conveyors. The lineup includes four MC800 20m units, one MC1200 25m unit, one MC1050 24m unit, one MC1050 21m unit, six MC800 16m units, two MC600 13m units, one MC1000 11m and two MC1000 9m units. ■ www.africanreview.com

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Equipment

CONSTRUCTION

ELB Equipment expands into East Africa T

he fast-growing oil and gas exploration in East Africa prompted ELB Equipment (ELB) to expand its South African operations by opening up a branch outlet in Nairobi, Kenya to distribute earthmoving, construction and mining equipment.

ELB Equipment, a member of the ELB Group is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange since 1951. The group was founded in 1903.

The many years, during which ELB has successfully served the unique and demanding African mining and construction equipment markets, is an assurance to customers that their businesses will be supported by a well-established and dynamic supplier of world-class equipment that meets local and international safety standards.

Equipment distributed by ELB includes - but is not limited to - backhoe loaders, excavators, wheel loaders, crawler dozers, compaction equipment, mobile crushers and screens, as well as trenching and horizontal directional drilling equipment. All machines sold by ELB have been proven, tested and engineered to suit the extremely hot, and in certain areas a dry and abrasive African environment.

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“In order to be close to our customers, the establishment of the branch in Nairobi is further proof that ELB honours its strategic mission,” said Desmond van Heerden, a director of ELB. He further said that ELB South Africa will work closely with ELB East Africa and in the best interests of the customer base of both businesses.

Through this new venture, ELB East Africa will have access to one of the largest spare parts and components stock in Africa; and to experienced field service technicians and qualified engineers in South Africa and abroad. With the support of the entire ELB Group of companies, ELB East Africa is therefore in an ideal position to distribute all the equipment and services required in the infrastructural development of a rapidly developing territory. ■ Enquiries: Desmond van Heerden, RSA: +27 (0)11-306-0700 Miles Hargreaves/Colm Halley, Kenya: +254 (0)20 807-0728 www.elbequipment.com

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CONSTRUCTION

Roads

Indian tech gets global success T

hanks to a unique combination of supreme quality and affordable pricing, Metso’s Indian-manufactured Nordwheeler portable plants have proven a global hit. Metso began building Nordwheeler portable plants in India 10 years ago. The crushing and screening technology produced in India by Metso has assumed an important role in several infrastructure projects in Asia, Middle East and Africa. During a short period of time, Metso has sold over 30 portable crushing and screening plants outside India to Asian and African aggregates producers for construction and road projects.

Products for professionals These portable plants are manufactured in Metso’s factory in Bawal, India. Earlier this year, the factory passed the milestone of 1,000 manufactured portable plants in India.

“Whenever the plant performance and end product quality are stressed, Metso has a strong position with its wheel-mounted, portable plants. They are built with fieldproven components to secure reliable operation and long life,” commented Eric Lavieville, product manager for portable plants, Metso Mining and Construction.

The foundation of each Nordwheeler portable plant is a rugged steel frame, which Metso equips according to the customer’s needs and specifications with jaw, cone or impactor crushers, required feeders, screens and conveyors. And, by combining two or three portable plants, a complete, mobile crushing and screening process can be built.

“The basic engineering concept for these machines was originally made in Metso’s European factories. Through a professional technology transfer, these products were brought to the Indian market. Here, the models were further developed for simple and efficient use by our local engineering teams of in Gurgaon,” said Venkatraman Ravindran, general manager of mobile equipment for the Asian market, Metso Mining and Construction. “In India alone, we have sold over 900 units. Export marketing began recently, and so far, we have sold

plants to countries like Thailand, Oman, Angola, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia and Mozambique.”

Metso’s portable plants are best suited for small to medium size quarries as well as for contractors, for capacities between 100-400 metric tons per hour. A standard plant consists of two or three crushing stages.

Aggregates produced with Metso’s portable plants can be used in a wide variety of infrastructure projects to build roads, bridges, railway networks, airports and to manufacture concrete and asphalt.

Performance to guarantee profitability Nordwheeler plants are run with environmentally-friendly electrical motors which also secure good energy efficiency.

A plant typically consists of a C96, C106 or C116 range jaw crusher for the primary stage, followed by adequate secondary and tertiary cone crushers from the tried-andtested GP or HP cone ranges. Instead of a cone crusher, a Barmac vertical impact crusher can also be selected for the tertiary stage to secure the good end product quality and cubicity. Inclined CVB screens classify the material, and feeding is handled by either small dump trucks or front wheel loaders.

In addition to the products, Metso and its worldwide local network secures the supervision of the erection and commissioning of the plant and offers comprehensive and continuous after sales service, including spare and wear parts, and all maintenance services tailored to the customer’s need. ■ www.africanreview.com

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Transport

CONSTRUCTION

Planning an aerotropolis A

consortium led by Aurecon has, since September 2013, been orchestrating the development of the Ekurhuleni OR Tambo Aerotropolis in Gauteng, South Africa.

The aerotropolis concept is now mainstream in aviation planning, and there is little doubt that it has brought substantial economic and social benefits to airport owners as well as local businesses and communities. However, this experience has largely been gained in the airports of Europe and North America. The Ekurhuleni Aerotropolis offers a unique opportunity to apply the lessons learnt at these other airports to develop a truly African solution.

The Aurecon Consortium brings together the best global expertise in the development and implementation of the aerotropolis solution, with an unrivalled understanding of the challenges and opportunities of implementing such a project in South Africa and in Gauteng.

What is an aerotropolis?

Air travel is ubiquitous in modern life not only for passenger travel, but to satisfy our growing need for the just-in-time provision of goods and services. The consequences of this is a dramatic increase in the number and scale of airports, their growth as sources of employment and increase in the consumer base at those airports, together with the growth of the airport as a destination.

In modern cities, airports have therefore become major drivers of urban form, economic activity and city competitiveness.

The aerotropolis aims to take advantage of these changes and optimise the positive effects the airport can have on the economy and on communities.

Essentially, the aerotropolis is an economic development strategy designed to increase competitiveness in global markets, leveraging the access that air travel and air freight

provides to global clients.

Critically, an aerotropolis doesn’t involve simply building additional retail stores in an airport terminal or more light industrial parks on the land surrounding an airport. It is about taking advantage of all the economic opportunities an airport offers, reflected at times by new physical infrastructure, but also by alternative retail, entertainment, employment and commercial land uses – and these can stretch out in a radius 30km or more from the airport itself.

The aerotropolis in emerging economies With aviation only starting to boom, and routes, passenger numbers and business investment still comparatively low in many emerging countries, is it too early to consider the aerotropolis approach for growing economies?

Airports traditionally develop in a piecemeal fashion. Many of the world’s current

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major airports started as small landing strips in the 1920s and have grown incrementally over time, although not always in a perfectly logical manner. There is extensive evidence to show that a large portion of the cost and development inefficiencies inherent in further developing existing airport cities come from a lack of strategic planning at an early stage.

Emerging economies tend to have an advantage here as many of the new airports are taking place as greenfield developments, with relatively modest current infrastructure.

Where the opportunity for economic growth exists, early planning will therefore enable that growth to be strategically developed, made more attractive and maximised.

The aerotropolis planning process Aerotropolis development embraces urban and regional planning, but with a strong focus on how these can be used to enable strategic economic development. The ultimate goal is to maximise the economic competitiveness, attractiveness and growth of the city and its surrounding region through the identification of the optimal mix of land uses and infrastructure investments.

The nature of these investments, how they are financed, where they are made, their

“It’s a challenging prospect, and a great responsibility, to deliver a project as comprehensive as this.” - Matt Coetzee, Aurecon urbanisation competency leader.

timing, how they relate to the broader economy and their alignment with economic and social sustainability, are all key outcomes of the planning process.

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Ekurhuleni will follow a process of information gathering, analysis, scenario planning, evaluation and selection. What matters most is the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ included in this process. ■

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MA Automotive, a member of RMA Group and a leading provider of purpose-built vehicles to clients in emerging markets, is exhibiting its modified vehicle solutions at the 20th Annual Mining Indaba 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa.

RMA Automotive is showcasing its latest mine site vehicle modifications and fleet solutions, including its new Ford Ranger Mine Site Heavy Duty Vehicle. The company bolsters its portfolio, too, with excellent aftersales support - including vehicle tracking, maintenance, fleet rentals, finance, service, repair and logistics – designed to

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keep RMA Automotive clients’ operational wheels rolling.

Mining Indaba is the world’s must-visit mining event, connecting professionals across the global mining industry at the largest industry happening of its kind.

Africa’s largest mining and industrial forum is being held from 3-6 February 2014, drawing key mining stakeholders and decision-makers from across Africa and the world. Last year, Mining Indaba attracted 7,800 individuals representing 1,500

companies from 100 countries, plus 45 government delegations – it is where the world connects to African mining, and this year is set to be the biggest yet.

RMA Automotive invites existing and new customers to join the networking and relationship-building forum that is the 20th Annual Mining Indaba: Investing in African 2014, where it has been a key exhibitor for four years.

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Drilling

Restoring underground access at Kipushi Ivanhoe Mines make progress with dewatering at the Kipushi mine in DR Congo, ahead of a 20,000-metre drilling programme for high-grade zinc and copper resources

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vanhoe Mines’ (IM) executive chairman, Robert Friedland, and CEO, Lars-Eric Johansson, confirmed recently that the company’s ongoing dewatering programme has achieved its key initial objective of restoring access to the main underground working level of the historic, high-grade Kipushi copper-zinc-germanium-lead and precious-metals mine in the DR Congo.

The water level, which reached 851 metres below surface at its peak, now has been reduced to the mine’s main working level at 1,150 metres below surface. This progress puts the company in a position to begin its planned, 20,000-metre underground diamond-drilling programme early in 2014. The programme is designed to confirm the mine’s estimated, remaining high-grade resources - which were included in the September 2012 Kipushi Technical Report prepared by IMC Group Consulting and to seek to further expand the resources on strike and at depth.

“Steelwork and equipment are being progressively replaced and upgraded as the water level drops, providing access for drilling and advancing us to a very significant milestone in the redevelopment of the Kipushi Mine,” said Johansson.

“Now we are in a position to begin our aggressive drilling programme, which we believe will confirm and expand the mine’s historical resources and set the stage for Kipushi to return to production as one of the world’s highest-grade mines.”

100-hole underground drilling programme IM’s 2014 drilling programme is scheduled to complete approximately 100 holes totalling more than 20,000 metres. Among the programme’s objectives is to conduct confirmatory drilling to validate the historical resources within Kipushi’s Big Zinc

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Kipushi cross-section showing current water level and unmined Big Zinc Discovery

and Fault zones and qualify them as current resources in conformance with standards established by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM).

Previous mining at Kipushi was conducted to a below-surface depth of 1,207 metres on the Kipushi Fault Zone, a deposit of high-grade, copper-zinc-lead mineralisation that has a strike length of 600 metres. The Fault Zone is known to extend to at least 1,800 metres below surface, based on drilling reports by stateowned mining company Gécamines (La Générale des Carrières et des Mines).

Kipushi also contains the Big Zinc, an extremely high-grade zinc deposit, adjacent to the Fault Zone, that was discovered shortly before the mine ceased production in 1993 and has never been mined. From its top at approximately the 1,200-metre level, the Big Zinc Deposit extends downward to

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at least the 1,640-metre level, as indicated

by Gécamines’ drilling.

Accessible from existing underground workings, the Big Zinc has a strike length of at least 100 metres, a true thickness calculated at 40 to 80 metres and is open to depth. Gécamines also reported that multiple, steeply-dipping, Big Zinc exploratory holes intersected exceptionally high-grade zinc mineralisation, grading 42 per cent to 45 per cent zinc, between the 1,375-metre and 1,600-metre levels, with estimated, apparent thicknesses of between 60 and 100 metres. Ivanhoe’s planned 2014 drilling programme also is designed to: ● Conduct extension drilling to test and upgrade the deeper portions of the Big Zinc and Fault zones, below the 1,500metre level, that previously were classified as Inferred Resources. ● Conduct exploration drilling to test areas www.africanreview.com

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that have not been previously evaluated, such as the deeper portions of the Fault Zone and extensions to the high-grade copper mineralisation of the mine’s Northern Deposit.

Obtain large-diameter drill core from the Big Zinc for confirmatory metallurgy test work.

New, underground drill holes also may provide a platform for geophysical exploration of Kipushi’s deep mineral potential, leveraging IM’s proprietary inhouse expertise. Kipushi has never been evaluated using modern geophysical techniques. Most of the underground infrastructure already is in place to support the drilling programme.

The majority of the drilling will be conducted from sites on the hanging-wall development drift at the 1,270-metre level and from the footwall ramp below the 1,150metre level. Initial drilling will start on the 1,215-metre level until access is available on the 1,270-metre level. A 280-metre step-back extension of the drift also will be driven to allow the drill crews to test the down-dip extensions of the Big Zinc and Fault zones.

Independent consultant MSA Group of

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Measured 8,899,979 Indicated 8,029,127 Total 16,929,106 Inferred 9,046,352 Totals shown above include the following Big Zinc resources: Measured 793,086 Indicated 3,918,366 Measured & Indicated 4,711,452

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Kipushi cross-section showing current water level and unmined Big Zinc Discovery

South Africa has been appointed to prepare a current estimate of the Big Zinc resources to CIM standards following completion of the confirmation drilling programme.

Production history at Kipushi From its start-up in 1924 as the Prince Léopold Mine, Kipushi produced a total of 6.6mn tonnes of zinc and four million tonnes of copper - from 60mn tonnes of ore grading 11 per cent zinc and approximately seven per cent copper - until operations were halted in 1993 due to political instability. The mine also produced 278 tonnes of germanium between 1956 and 1978.

Underground workings were extensively flooded during Kipushi’s 18 years of care-

and-maintenance as a former state-owned asset before IM acquired a 68 per cent interest in the mine in 2011. Gécamines retains a 32 per cent interest in the mine. In addition to the recorded production of copper, zinc, lead and germanium, historical Gécamines mine-level plans for Kipushi also reported the presence of precious metals.

There is no formal record of gold and silver production; the concentrate was shipped to Belgium and the recovery of precious metals was not disclosed during the colonial era.

IMC Group Consulting, which prepared the current Kipushi Technical Report, considers the historical estimate prepared by Techpro Mining and Metallurgy in 1997 (see Fig. 1) to be the most relevant and reliable. ■

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Services

Superior partners in mineral projects British companies continue to offer a full range of professional services to Africa’s mining industry

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hanks to Britain’s mining heritage, the UK has a long-established reputation for first-class engineering, construction and infrastructure capabilities. And, today, London is known as a global centre of mining finance, underpinned by recognised regulatory and legal frameworks, which provides liquidity to international projects of every size. In 2012, UK-listed mining companies had a total market capitalisation of US$425bn — more than any other financial market in the world.

Yet, mining is a complex, wide-ranging and high value opportunity industry with diverse needs — one that uses British innovation to deliver solutions across every part of the sector, from financing through to maintenance services. This includes feasibility and development studies; legal, advisory, accountancy, tax and audit services; risk management, project management, best practice, environmental, logistics, legacy management and closure-planning services and communications strategies.

Cost control Cost efficiency and effective cost management are key considerations in any mining development. UK company Turner & Townsend provides programme management, project services, project controls and contract services to the mining industry across the whole lifecycle of a project, from concept to execution and beyond. The company, which has been working in the mining sector for 40 years, independently represents the commercial interests of its clients with a scalable, flexible consulting offer, from relatively small assignments through to large-scale teams.

“There are two principal challenges the mining industry faces at present,” says Mark Wainwright, MD natural resources, Turner & Townsend. “One is depressed commodity prices, as exemplified in the gold and coal sectors; the other and interlinked factor is a lack

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The Tonkilili iron ore mine in Sierra Leone

of capital to fund development programmes, leading to delays and/or cancellation of projects. What Turner & Townsend does, therefore, is offer a cost and schedule-focussed approach, minimising the risk which could lead to overspend and overrun.”

Breadth of expertise Atkins has long experience of working in the mining sector with particular strengths in mine infrastructure, road, rail, ports and harbours, materials handling, and energy supplies.

“The underlying challenge in the mining sector is one of commercial practicality,” says Tony Illes, growth director, industry and environment at Atkins. “For example, newer mines tend to be located in more remote places — which means supply lines will be longer and this can have a critical impact on the financial viability of the mine development. Part of our job, therefore, is to make infrastructure as cost-efficient as possible, while ensuring it is fit for purpose across the lifespan of the mine itself. This requires a breadth of skills, from experience of working in inhospitable landscapes right the way through to understanding the tax

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implications of individual countries.”

Realising potential British materials and solutions are also in demand by the mining industry. In July 2013, it was announced that Polypipe, the UK’s largest manufacturer of plastic piping systems, is set to expand its presence in the African market with a particular focus on the mining industry, having already secured contracts to supply pipework systems to major mining projects in Kenya and Sierra Leone.

It was after delivering to the Tonkilili mine in Sierra Leone that Polypipe fully realised the opportunity the mining sector offered the company. With its broad product portfolio, Polypipe offers pipework and water management systems to meet the needs of the mining operations themselves, which involve both pressurised pumping and gravity systems and mining process pipework as well as water supply and drainage systems for the construction of buildings, offices and accommodation complexes, together with drainage systems for the infrastructure required to support the mine.

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Services supply, and with processes that place high demands on water usage, effective water management in large-scale mining operations is essential,” says Polypipe export sales manager, Philip Wood.

Education provision The UK is also a world-leader in academic and corporate research, education provision and knowledge transfer, maximising local content for employment in communities and businesses.

Many of the UK’s universities have geoscience, minerals and materials and engineering research centres that conduct pure and applied research into every facet of the mining industry, including low-carbon technologies, sustainability and biodiversity and water and waste resources management.

Camborne School of Mines at the UK-based University of Exeter is recognised by the industry as one of the world’s leading mining schools. As a result it works with local, national and international business, providing a range of services to promote advances in sustainable mining, geological exploration and renewable energy; while universities including Derby, Imperial College and Leicester, provide company-specific blended learning courses to miners, mining support

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Enhanced reputation A young market such as Sierra Leone presents many opportunities for UK businesses; yet it brings challenges, too, such as skills shortages.

“That is why we have invested heavily in training and created training schools to up-skill the workforce,” says Davies. “In Sierra Leone alone we have trained over 1,500 nationals. We have also invested heavily in our support services such as logistics, which cannot be under-estimated in terms of the infrastructure needed to service a large project.”

In Sierra Leone, Dawnus’ school to train plant operators has been accredited by the National Plant Operators Registration Scheme Ltd. “Our philosophy of implementing a direct delivery model and directly employing our workforce has also been a big success factor in an environment where you have to be able to adapt quickly,” says Davies. “It has provided us with better control in implementing training programmes and standards. It also has wider social benefits to the local community, which has enhanced our reputation as being seen as an employer of choice.” ■

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Certainty of delivery British company Dawnus, founded in 2001 and now the fastest-growing construction company in the UK, provides three main services to the mining industry: the construction of all civil engineering and building infrastructure needed for a mine’s development and operation including maintenance (port, rail, roads, dams, tailings dams, buildings, civil and structural work for mine process plants and quarrying services); contract mining; plus geotechnical services including ground investigation.

When African Minerals Ltd in Sierra Leone was looking for reliable contractors to deliver the infrastructure for its Tonkolili Iron Ore Project in 2010, Dawnus — which had never worked in the mining industry before — won the tender, based on its successful delivery of a liquid natural gas project in the UK. “Africa was just the opening we required as mining can be a difficult sector to enter without a track record,” says Richard Davies, international director at Dawnus. “Our clients invest large sums of capital and certainty of delivery in terms of safety, quality, time and budget is key. We have found that within the

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Energy

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ronimet Mining-Power Solutions (CRM - Power Solutions) specialises in the development, financing, integration, construction and operation of hybrid power facilities and renewable energy infrastructure.

A subsidiary company of Cronimet Mining Group, CRM-Power Solutions is led by Rollie Armstrong, the company’s managing director, who spoke recently to African Review at his offices in Munich, Germany. With satellite offices in South Africa and Rwanda, Mr Armstrong spoke of achievements made by CRM-Power Solutions in enabling renewable energy provision for the mining sector - and why he expects the company to generate significant business in Africa in 2014 and beyond, through its innovative approach to energy financing and management.

A prime example of PV innovation The company’s reference projects for groundmounted solar systems include work undertaken over four months in 2012 at Thabazimbi, South Africa, where a 1MW

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The innovative PV-Diesel hybrid facility at Cronimet's Thabazimbi Chromium mine in the Limpopo province

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by Cronimet Chrome Mining SA (Pty in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. CRM-Power Solutions was co-development partner on the project with Solea Renewables. Thabazimbi represents the world’s largest solar PV-diesel hybrid facility, comprising 4,170 solar panels - producing gigawatt hours of solar energy per year, displacing in excess of 450,000 litres of diesel and 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually. The photovoltaic (PV) power system introduced at Thabazimbi was the world’s first fully-operational utility-scale captive PV/Diesel hybrid power system on completion. It was built with 4,158 Jinko

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Solar JKM240P-60 PV panels, 63 Sunny Tripower STP 17000 TL sting inverters, and two Perkins 800 kVA generators. Completed in November 2012, commissioned a month later, it has complemented the mine’s primary Diesel energy supply.

Mr Armstrong is encouraged by the prospects following the Thabazimbi project, which is ideally located to showcase PV innovation. Limpopo’s earth is rich, with 12 different minerals being extracted by approximately 70 mines operating in the province. To indicate the scale of significance of minerals to the provincial economy, Limpopo has 41 per cent of South Africa's platinum group metals, 90 per cent of South Africa's red granite resources and 50 per cent of the country's coal reserves. (Source: Limpopo Business 2012) Mine owners examining the Thabazimbi facility may be interested to see how CRM-Power can help them reduce their reliance on national grid supply operated by Eskom - the South African electricity utility - or to reduce their carbon footprints. ■

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MINING

Corporate concerns O

ver 19 years, the annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, which is organised by Mining Indaba LLC, has channelled billions of dollars into the African mining value chain. Mining Indaba enables companies to present their credentials to the investor community, initiate and close deals with other industry players, promote their operations and offerings to thousands of global professionals on multiple platforms and share knowledge of developments and best practices.

The conference at the 20th annual Investing in African Mining Indaba - taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, 3-6 February - offers content that has become popular throughout the years, sessions offering variety, value and vision. The programme has been designed to deliver the information relevant to a global audience and also to create critical networking opportunities to establish and nurture the important business relationships.

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Cynthia Carroll, CEO of AngloAmerican.

Mark Cutifani, CEO of AngloGold Ashanti.

Robert M Friedland, executive chairman and founder at Ivanplats Limited.

The 2014 conference programme addresses current concerns including cross-continental business relationships and commodities markets’ performances. Keynote speakers scheduled this year include: Graham Briggs, CEO of Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited; Phil Newman, CEO of CRU Strategies; and Sipho Nkosi, CEO of Exxaro Resources Limited. ■

Renowned for expertise There is much to live up to. The Mining Indaba conference programme has seen many renowned international macroeconomic experts, CEOs from some of the world’s largest mining houses, and government dignitaries. The 2013 programme included distinguished speakers such as:

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Solutions

Handling and loading Bobcat introduces new equipment to move materials more productively

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t the Intermat Middle East Exhibition, held recently in Abu Dhabi, the star turn of the Bobcat display on the stand for Kanoo Machinery, the Authorised Bobcat dealer for the UAE, was the new Bobcat T40180 18 metre telescopic handler - Bobcat’s largest rigid frame telescopic handler. It joins the new T40140 14 metre model in the Bobcat’s current offering. Both telehandlers have increased maximum lifting heights and are based on a new easy-to-use design that provides classleading efficiency and productivity backed by advanced safety systems.

The T40180 telehandler has a maximum lift capacity of four tonnes and a maximum lift height of 17.52 metres. The lift capacity at maximum lift height is 2.5 tonne, while at maximum reach (13.7 metres), the lift capacity is 560 kg. Unloaded, the T40180 weighs 10.79 tonnes and provides a crowding force of 12300 daN. For the T40140 telehandler, the maximum lift capacity is 4.1 tonnes and the maximum lift height is 13.71 metres. The capacity at maximum lift height is four tonnes, while at maximum reach (10.43 metres), the capacity is 1.3 tonnes. Unloaded, the T40140 weighs 10.29 tonnes and provides a tilt crowding force of 12300 daN. Market-leading load chart performance The new T40180 and T40140 models deliver market-leading load chart performance in their classes, when operating on tyres alone, where the high stability of the telehandlers

A new Bobcat S130 skid-steer loader, bought to support shiptrimming work

ensures minimal loss of lift height and capacity. As a result, the T40180 telehandler has an unmatched maximum lifting height of 16.2 metre when operated on tyres, whilst the new T40140 model offers the highest lift capacity of 4.1 tonnes.

The unique, patented Bobcat side shift system is a standard feature on the T40180 and T40140 models, ensuring there is no need to reposition the machine if it is not aligned with an opening, providing maximum flexibility with a +/- 700 mm side shift. This is combined with the unique integrated frame levelling system which works independently of the main frame to provide a tilt correction on inclined surfaces of +/- 4o on tyres and up to +/- 12o on stabilisers for safe, optimum positioning of loads.

The new Bobcat T40180 18 metre - Bobcat’s largest rigid frame telescopic handler

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Loaders for cement ships Another development, which offers an example of how new installations can use Bobcat equipment to support transit operations, is the purchase by Scotline Ltd of a new Bobcat S130 skid-steer loader for shiptrimming work at a cement installation at Scotline’s Rochester Transit Terminal in Kent in the UK. When a cement ship docks at the Scotline Transit Terminal, most of the unloading of the cement in the hold is carried out by a trailer-mounted extraction system on the dockside, which pumps cement from the hold via a new pipeline system to four large silos, from where it is loaded via a hopper into lorries for supply to customers.

As the hold on the cement ship empties, there comes a point where the discharge tube cannot reach the corners and this leaves a significant amount of cement remaining in the hold. At this point, the Bobcat S130 skid-steer loader, which is equipped with an optional front door, is lowered by crane into the hold, where it first forms new mounds of cement in the centre of the hold for the discharge tube to extract and is then used to ensure that the hold is cleaned out as much as possible.

Ian Gould, purchasing manager at Scotline, said, “We are very pleased with the performance of the Bobcat S130 loader which has been designed specifically with the durability and reliability you need for tough applications like this.” ■ www.africanreview.com

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Solar Spring technology for solar inverters Semikron Electronics has introduced user-friendly spring technology for power and control terminals as well as simple, cost-effective and solder-free single-screw assembly of circuit boards, cooling units and modules - MiniSKiiP, which is primarily used in solar inverters and power supplies.

Following the power range of up to 40 kW, the MiniSKiiP is now available for power ranges up to 90 kW.

Safety solution for PV installations

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ersen has introduced products for the photovoltaic (PV) HelioProtection programme, which has an electronic protection system against electrocution hazards on PV installations, complying with the evolution of safety standards in 2013 and 2014 in various countries (UTE, VDE, UL), for public buildings, sensible installations and rooftop applications. www.mersen.com

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The MiniSKiiP is primarily used in solar inverters and power supplies

A new lantern Panasonic Corporation has recently launched a project to provide new solar LED lantern that will light dark areas in Africa and Asia. The BGBL03 solar lantern can be charged up in just six hours, and it even doubles as a power source to charge mobile devices. It has a built-in rechargeable battery that is fed with solar energy from from the included photovoltaic panel. Once the sun has set, the Solar Lantern can provide 360 degrees of illumination, to brighten every corner of a room. When fully charged, the lantern can provide six hours of uninterrupted light at maximum brightness, and it lasts even longer if the brightness is turned down. The lantern is also rain and dust proof, making it durable enough for the roughest terrains. The 3.5W solar panel can also charge small devices through a USB port. www.panasonic.net www.africanreview.com

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Cummins’ new power generator Engine-maker Cummins Power Generation has launched its latest gas generator set product line.

The new lean-burn 50 Hz products to hit the market will offer better transient performance and enhanced fuel capability, enabling them to run on low methane number fuels and cut emissions, Cummins Power Generation said.

The company’s newest products include a 2 MWe variant, alongside the newer 1,540 kWe and 1,750 kWe models.

According to Cummins Power Generation, the new models feature prime, peaking and combined heat and power (CHP).

Their robust load handling attributes make them suitable for remote locations where grid power cannot be used, such as mining, oil or gas fields, or in parts of the world where grid power is either unreliable or inaccessible. The new product line is able to run on biogases from landfill, digester and sewage sites, Cummins Power Generation said.

ABB works with NAPA on vessel advisory solutions Power and automation technology group ABB has signed a cooperation agreement with NAPA, a software house supplying solutions for ship design and operation. ABB and NAPA will cooperate to offer the NAPA Loading Computer and the electronic NAPA Logbook.

The products will be offered under ABB’s Vessel Information and Control (VICO) portfolio, as part of a complete advisory solution devised to optimise ship efficiency.

The NAPA Loading Computer undertakes a wide range of calculations related to hydrostatics, intact stability and ship longitudinal strength. The system is installed onboard 1,400 ships, including tankers and passenger vessels.

NAPA’s Logbook offers a combination of common data storage, automation interfaces, reminders, guidelines and checklists prevents misuse and unlocks far-reaching additional reporting capability.

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