Media coverage

Business Day - In 2012, PRASA awarded a R51bn contract to the Gibela empowerment consortium — of which Alstom Southern African Holdings is the largest shareholder — to deliver 600 Alstom trains consisting of six coaches each for the agency’s commuter rail fleet renewal programme.

Financial Mail - The promise SA’s rail modernisation programme holds for the economy and for the country’s position in the greater African economy is vast.

Business Day - By the second half of 2017 Gibela Rail says it will be on track to begin assembling the first of 580 state-of-the-art commuter trains due to be built in SA. This forms as part of a R51bn contract aimed at modernising public transport and revitalising the rail engineering sector.

Engineering News - State-owned rail utility the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s (PRASA’s) rail expansion and renewal project is prompting much-needed large-scale orders for the casting industry, which is encouraging Bronkhorstspruit-based specialist foundry Steloy Castings to invest in new equipment specifically to service the rail industry through its newly formed Steloy Rail Division.

Business Tech - The Passenger Rail Agency of SA (PRASA) recently unveiled its high-powered AFRO 4000 series diesel locomotives to improve the efficiency of passenger rail services in the country.

SABC - at the Gibela Supplier day event

Gibela’s supplier day "meet and greet" in Gauteng on Thursday for aspirant railway equipment manufacturers emphatically affirmed the role of small black businesses in the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s (PRASA’s) R51bn spending programme to 2035.

Alstom’s Lapa manufacturing plant in Brazil has timely manufactured the first complete body-shell of the twenty X’Trapolis Mega commuter trains currently under production in the site as part of its 600-trains contract with Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa.

The Alstom-led Gibela consortium has completed manufacturing of the first complete stainless-steel bodyshell for the 20 X'Trapolis Mega EMUs it is supplying to Passenger Rail Authority of South Africa (PRASA) from Alstom's Lapa plant in Brazil as part of an order for 600 trains.

Making quick work of its ten-year R51-billion contract to supply South Africa’s Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) with 600 trains, rail company Gibela has unveiled the first completed car body-shell at major shareholder Alstom’s Lapa manufacturing facility, in Sao Paulo, Brazil – some seven months after the landmark deal’s financial close.

South African rail company Gibela Rail Transport Consortium is making steady progress on executing a R51-billion contract to supply the State-owned mass transportation system operator Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) with 600 new X'Ttrapolis Mega commuter trains to replace South Africa's aging Metrorail rolling stock trains over the next ten years, says Gibela CEO Marc Granger.

South African rail company Gibela Rail Transport Consortium is making steady progress on executing a R51-billion contract to supply the State-owned mass transportation system operator Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) with 600 new X'Ttrapolis Mega commuter trains to replace South Africa's aging Metrorail rolling stock trains over the next ten years, says Gibela CEO Marc Granger.