Friends of the Rail Forum

The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has identified, Private-Public-Partnerships (PPP) as one of the strategies to ensure efficient service delivery to major clients in the face of challenges it is facing.

Under the PPP strategy, NRZ is prepared to enter into mutually beneficial arrangements with customers resulting in win-win situations for both the organisation and the customer.

In a demonstration of a successful PPP, NRZ recently received two refurbished GE U20C locomotives which were hired by the Zimbabwe Iron Mining and Smelting Company (Zimasco) from South African logistics company Traxtion Sheltam.

Under this PPP, Zimasco will hire and pay for the locomotives, Traxtion Sheltam will provide the locomotives while NRZ will operate them in addition to providing wagons... The locomotives come with technicians provided by Traxtion Sheltam who will be stationed on board to ensure that any technical problems are attended to timeously to minimise delays in transit...