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FAW launches
commercial vehicle
FAW VEHICLE Manufacturers has
launched the FAW 6.130 FL medium
truck, specifi cally confi gured for the
local market and built in South Africa for
southern and central African markets. The
FAW 6.130 is based on the successful FAW
8.140, albeit reconfi gured with a 2.8-litre
Cummins ISF engine, shortened chassis
and 3.5-ton payload, and shares a number
of components with it, including the cab.
The newcomer also benefi ts from the
same technical workshop knowledge.
Jianyu Hao, CEO of FAW Vehicle
Manufacturers SA, says: “Our decision
to introduce this truck was based
on customer demand and market
opportunity. Our market analysis
confi rmed the need for a vehicle as
durable and rugged as our heavy and
extra-heavy trucks, but reconfi gured with
a smaller engine and reduced payload
compared to the highly successful FAW
8.140 range.”
When designing the new truck range,
the FAW team paid special attention to
cost effi ciency combined with the best
possible payload and the best turnaround
time, without forgetting FAW’s quality
build standards for durability and
reliability.
The FAW 6.130 medium duty truck
will be available from FAW dealers in a
number of body derivatives – a drop-side,
a tautliner option, a van body, a tipper
and a rollback and a dry-freight insulated
body. Customers may choose to buy the
chassis cab and fi t their own truck bodies
to suit many other applications, up to a
GCM of 10 tons. •
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Sappi supports
sustainability
SAPPI IS working with supply chain
partners to support the industry’s
sustainability journey. The company
aims to create real value by
contributing to business growth
within the context of the constantly
changing external environment in which
we operate.
Sappi plans to drive its sustainability
strategy forward by meeting customer
needs with new products, investing in
innovation, establishing more transparent
supply chains, treading more lightly on
the planet and developing its people.
To make this happen, collaboration is
needed. This is the foundation of Sappi´s
new Supplier Code of Conduct, recently
shared with supply chain partners.
Graeme Wild, Sappi’s Group Head of Investor Relations
and Sustainability, commented: “We are committed to
collaborating with our suppliers to ensure they understand
our values, ethical standards and environmental
requirements so that together we can make a greater
positive impact on people, planet and prosperity.” •
Construction of Tambo
Springs Intermodal
Terminal announced
Courtesy www.ftwonline.co.za
TRANSNET HAS announced the construction of a new
inland terminal at an estimated cost of R2.5 billion, said
to be fully operational in three to four years’ time. The
Tambo Springs Intermodal Terminal is described as a
“next generation logistics gateway” and will be built on
607 hectares.
Once completed, hopefully by no later than 2023, it is
“expected to ease road traffi c by diverting road cargo to
rail networks linked to the country’s sea ports. Container
movement to and from Gauteng is expected to grow
to four million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per
annum by 2021, from three million currently. The new
terminal will ease strain on the existing inland container
terminal of City Deep,” says Transnet. The projected
throughput is 189,600 TEUs.
A total of 191,000 permanent and temporary jobs will
be created during the construction phase. The terminal
will consist of two intermodal platforms sharing six
transtainer cranes operated on Burbak rails.
The project heralds a major move towards public-
private participation as it will be stewarded through a joint
venture (JV) made up of Transnet and Southern Palace. •
June 2019 | Logistics News