Their meeting’s designed to formulate strategies to meet the challenges including depressed economies and create business opportunities for suppliers and other industry players.

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Four of the previous meetings of the 20-year-old Southern African Railways Association have been in Midrand.

This year’s theme concentrates on effective supply chain logistics in moving freight from ports to customers.

SARA operations director Sam Mzileni says efficient transport networks enable the Americas, Europe and Asia to conclude well over double the trade with neighbours that Southern African nations manage to achieve.

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