Southern African Railways Association

Southern African
Railways Association

Delivering a cost effective, regionally integrated
seamless and predictable railway transport service
advocating for a sustainable fair surface transport
policy in the SADC region.
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The Southern African Railways Association

Vision

A leading provider of world class total logistics solution for the region by 2030

Mission

To facilitate trade in the region through provision of cost effective and efficient total logistics solution

Goals

The 2018-2022 Strategic Plan identifies seven high-level goals to provide management guidance for SARA through to 2022. These goals are:

Increase rail market share to at least 40%
Establish and align service delivery standards to meet customer expectations
Meet operational safety standards and "0" accidents per gross tonne-km
Comply with national/regional legislation, treaties & governance code of conduct
Attain operating profit margin of at least 15%
Advocacy for pro-rail policy & implementation of UN-SDG

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EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE ZAMBIA RAILWAYS LIMITED LAND AND BUILDINGS THROUGH VARIOUS PARTNERSHIP MODELS

Tender Closing Date: 22 November 2019

ZRL has both bare land and buildings in different locations and along its network from Chililabombwe to Mulobezi. ZRL now invites interested companies from both public and private sector to propose suitable projects or businesses to develop on its land and Buildings. For this invitation for expressi...

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The current SARA strategy addresses five strategic focus areas of advocacy and lobbying, infrastructure development, railway operations, resource mobilisation, marketing and publicity and safety.

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SARA is a ‘Non-profit Organisation’ domiciled in Zimbabwe formed in April 1996 in terms of its Constitution in response to increasing road competition.

At its formation, SARA was to originally provide the SADC railways with a strong lobbying association to pursue advocacy for fair surface transport competition to be achieved through– “levelling of the playing field” between road and rail in terms of policy and regulations.

Modal equity was to be achieved by enforcing the User Pays Principle where the road pays the full cost of road infrastructure or infrastructure support to railways by Governments.