$772 million plus in 2010 Opportunities in Cape Town
As Cape Town prepares for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, large infrastructure projects within the city offer opportunities exceeding $772 million for U.S. business. These include: demolition and reconstruction of the Green Point Stadium, expenditures on roads and other transport infrastructure such as rail and airport services.
With an investment of over $386 million, the Green Point Stadium will be transformed into a completely new 68,000 seat, all-weather, multi-purpose, environmentally sustainable, technologically advanced, world-class Stadium. The new Stadium, planned to be ready by 2009, will comply fully with FIFA Match Stadium requirements. For more information contact: Jaisvir.Sewpaul@mail.doc.gov or +27 (0)21 702-7379.
Western Cape’s Public Transport System
As part of preparations for 2010, a plan has been presented for a fully integrated transport solution for Cape Town and the Provincial Government of the Western Cape. The multimillion dollar restructuring will integrate rail, bus and minibus taxi transport. The first phase of the project will cost the Province approximately $24.3 million with significant additional expenditures highly likely. The project involves an intelligent transport system (ITS) encompassing route monitoring, fleet management and passenger information and an integrated fare management system, including an integrated ticketing system. Major investment and technical expertise is required in infrastructure, operations and system management to support this project. For more information contact: Jaisvir.Sewpaul@mail.doc.gov or +27 (0)21 702-7379.
Cape Town International Airport
Approximately $186 million will be invested in the facelift of Cape Town International Airport by the year 2009. Upgrades will include a new terminal, an elevated road, a plaza for public transport, air bridges and a multi-story parking structure. For more information contact: Jaisvir.Sewpaul@mail.doc.gov or +27 (0)21 702-7379.
The 132 kV Foreshore Switching Station project is part of a phased plan to replace the ageing switchgear and power transformers at Roggebaai switching station and to improve the reliability of the supply in the Central Business District (CBD). The current estimated cost for the project is $21 million. Provision for this project has already been included in the City’s capital budget. For more information contact Tyrena.Holley@mail.doc.gov 2or +27 (0)21 702 7424.
The South African Police Services are procuring high tech
security equipment that will be linked to Global Information
Systems (GIS) and satellites. These include: A Command Vehicle;
Downlink Equipment, Mobile Police Station; Push-to-Talk (PTT)
Radios & Closed circuit televisions (CCTVs). The City has
included 200 additional Pan-tilt and Zoom (PTZ) CCTV cameras for
safety and security within the City of Cape Town, for the CBD and
Green Point areas for an estimated $1.2 million. A further
$1.5 million is estimated for security infrastructure
requirements for 85 Personal Vision Assistants (PVAs) with
high-quality color capabilities. The five PVA each have 10
cameras per site and the other 80 sites have two cameras each.
For more information contact Tyrena.Holley@mail.doc.gov
or +27 (0)21 702 7424.
Tourism: The 2010 FIFA World Cup presents a number of good tourism development opportunities in Cape Town and the surrounding area. These include: A $2.7 million destination tourism marketing strategy, which aims to market Cape Town and the Western Cape as the preferred destination for 2010 Soccer World Cup spectators and participating teams. A $1.4 million Film Strategic Plan involving media workshops and the development of visual archives and information, and development of Cape Town & Western Cape Film Festival. There will also be Customer Service Training for front-office staff, with the development of a Call Center for information management and customer relations. For more information contact Felicity.nagel@mail.doc.gov or +27 (0)21 702 7345.