Protekon - Multi-Disciplinary Railway Consultancy, Project Managers and Railway Concession Infrastructure Managers

Protekon is a multi-disciplinary engineering company specializing in providing turnkey railway, port and inter-modal logistical solutions in Africa and further afield. Our intimate knowledge, more than 50 years of experience in railway and port solutions and service excellence ensures that our clients maintain a competitive advantage.

Protekon offers holistic railway solutions through the whole range of services including: permanent way design, train operational design, existing multi-disciplinary infrastructure evaluation and design, rehabilitation planning and design, inter-modal facilities planning and design, construction management, maintenance and infrastructure management.

RAILWAY ENGINEERING SERVICES

Protekon offers a comprehensive multi-disciplinary railway engineering service based on over 50 years of experience gained in the design and project management of railway infrastructural developments and renewals throughout Africa.

Extensive multi-disciplinary expertise in the fields of railway engineering, civil engineering, signal engineering and electrical engineering enables Protekon to offer a complete railway engineering solution.

STRUCTURAL, GEOTECHNICAL, BRIDGE AND WATER ENGINEERING

These fields of expertise are further enhanced through our bridge engineering, structural engineering, water engineering, geotechnical engineering and mechanical engineering expertise. Protekon also offers expert consultancy services in the fields of railway operations design.

NEW RAILWAY PROJECTS

For new railway projects the services include feasibility studies, preliminary designs, detail designs, route alignment, geometric designs, permanent way designs, railway material design and specification, train operations design, computerized train simulations for optimization of geometric designs and operational costs, specifications, quality plans, tender documentation and evaluation, contracts management, project management, construction management and maintenance services.

For existing railways and railway concessions the services over and above the services listed above, include detailed permanent way condition assessment, detailed assessment of operational plans and rolling stock conditions, design of appropriate standards, design of appropriate operational plans, specification of rehabilitation measures, rehabilitation of existing railway-lines and infrastructure and the upgrading of existing railway-lines and infrastructure.

TOTAL RAILWAY SOLUTIONS

Protekon can draw on extensive expertise from other Transnet companies, which enables Protekon to offer a comprehensive package of services to clients.

Some of the additional services that are available through the Transnet companies are the provision and maintenance of rolling stock, communications ranging from telephones, cellular communications, train control systems to satellite communications, railway operations, and port operations.

RAILWAY CONCESSIONS

Railways in Africa are increasingly being concessioned and Transnet, through Spoornet, its railway operating company, Transtel, its communications company, Transwerk, its rolling stock manufacturing company and Protekon, is excellently positioned to take up such concessions. To date Transnet and its subsidiary company Comazar, has secured railway concessions in Mozambique, Zambia, Madagascar, Cameroon and Ivory Coast, and is well positioned on other concession bids.

Protekon plays an integral role in these concessions with the rehabilitation and maintenance of railway infrastructure.

PROTEKON

Protekon has an experienced, motivated and service orientated professional staff complement of 750 people, of which more than 350 are tertiary qualified.

Protekon, through being part of Transnet Ltd, the largest railway organization on the African continent, has an intimate understanding of railway operations and railway infrastructure. We apply this knowledge to create railway infrastructure that is optimized, for both operational efficiency and capital expenditure.

Protekon is the largest specialist railway infrastructure solutions provider in Africa and from Africa.

CONCLUSION

Protekon has been instrumental in the establishment of the 30,617 track-km of railways operated by Spoornet in South Africa, which includes the world class heavy haul coal export railway line transporting in excess of 67 million tonnes of coal per annum and is increasingly playing a major role in the revitalization of railways in Africa.

Protekon, through its extensive knowledge of the African railways and African conditions, can offer a superior railway solutions service to clients.