TRANSPORT BUSINESS
(LOGISTICS CLIENTS)
The business community plays a vital role in developing and facilitating trade in the logistics and supply environment. Through these channels we will lobby warehousing, transport and consulting businesses to be part of MIPA.
STATE OWNED ENTERPRISES
(CEOs AND TOP EXECUTIVES)
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are significant players in world, providing sizeable contributions to GDP, creating jobs, and supplying essential services to citizens, such as power, water, transportation, and education.
GOVERNMENT
(CABINET)
The government has been seen as the primary agent in serving the public good and defining the collective interest. According to this view, governments set the agenda for change, propose new laws, and enforce existing ones.
OUR KEY OBJECTIVES & GOALS
- Drive workable Multimodal solutions
- Reform the rail industry through private investment
- Convert rail-friendly volumes from road to rail
- Optimise industrial and logistics activities around South Africa through efficient multi-modalism
- Expand collaboration with other freight hubs and stakeholders, that could help deliver the objectives of MIPA.
OUR SERVICES
The Inland Port Association (MIPA) will monitor SA Logistics and Transport Policy and keep members informed and comment/lobby accordingly.
The Association’s Role is to:
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✓ Facilitate free trade.
✓ Provide infrastructure.
✓ Promoting sustainable practices.
✓ Promote member’s compliance with UN 17 SDGs.
✓ Promote SADC Vision & Mission 2050.
✓ MIPA encourages customer satisfaction and continuous improvement of client services.
✓ MIPA Promotes the reduction of the cost of Logistics as well as CO² outputs.
UPCOMING INITIATIVES
- Collaboration with Transnet SOC to declutter and unblock the existing logistics system.
- MIPA has identified business models, as well as ground-breaking innovations to facilitate the transfer of freight from road to rail.
- Post a collaboration agreement with Transnet SOC, MIPA as well as its members will be able to introduce much-needed capital into the movement of freight from road to rail.
