SA is going a through a commuter rail revolution. We spoke to Gibela CEO Hector Danisa about it.

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Under Hector Danisa, the Gibela rail consortium is not only constructing new modern trains but also rebuilding a rail industry that last built a train 40 years ago.

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Under its CEO Hector Danisa, Gibela is not only constructing new modern trains but also rebuilding a rail industry that last built a train 40 years ago.as part of a R51 billion contract.

There is, however, more to this contract than just building trains. Under Danisa, Gibela is also putting together a supply chain to support an industry that basically disappeared 40 years ago. "I wanted to be involved in major engineering projects. I knew ultimately I wanted to be involved in something like that," he says.

Danisa joined at an exciting time. Gibela, which is a consortium made up of France’s Alstom and South Africa’s Ubumbano Rail, had three years earlier signed the deal to build the trains for Prasa. Danisa needed all this experience when it came to making Prasa’s trains because, as he puts it, making trains are for more complex than building cars and planes. To make the X’trapolis Mega trains train required 200 design engineers, and it took three years to redevelop it for South Africa’s narrow-gauge rails.Gibela also had the challenge of doing this while developing the train with no local infrastructure.

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