Trencon Black Jills JV wins R400m Gibela train plant contract

Gibela on Thursday announced that it had awarded the Trencon Black Jills joint venture (JV) the R400-million contract to build the main site buildings at its Dunnottar train manufacturing plant, on the East Rand. The plant would be used to produce the 580 trains Gibela was to supply to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa in a R51-billion deal signed in 2013. Another 20 trains would be imported from Brazil. Six of these trains were already in South Africa. Gibela CEO Marc Granger described the 21-year-old Trencon Construction as the largest black-owned construction company in South Africa. The eight-year-old Black Jills Engineering was a black-women-owned firm.