The Welding Federation (TWF) and Trans Africa Railway Connection (TARC Ltd) have signed a memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on African content management in the delivery of welding and related services on the TARC project.
TWF is a pan African organization headquartered in South Africa with the aim of domesticating and domiciling welding capacity within the African region to serve the needs of its manufacturing industries.
According to the Project Director, TARC, Chukwuma Magnus Nwakama, the MOU was signed by Christian R. Gutzwiller, Chairman of TARC, and Ayo Adeniyi, Executive Director of TWF, in a closed-door session, is a reflection of progress in the actualization of Africa’ Continental Free Trade Agreement (AFCFTA) objectives and major steps toward attainment of African Union’s Agenda 2063.
TARC is a 20 million metric ton steel project that will involve the application of both generic and specialized welding processes in the construction and installation of thousands of kilometers of railway tracks and couches across key corridors to boost trade of products and services.
It is hoped that governments across all African transit corridors will hurriedly give the necessary approvals where necessary for commencement of initial activities on this project for the benefit it guarantees.
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The newly elected President of The Welding Federation, Dr Hamed Abdel-Aleem, expressed delight in the development.
“TWF has really good people with character, technical depth and vast exposure. Most importantly, people are driven by a uniform quest to make an impact that will improve the situation in Africa. We have made good progress working on a lot of things and building the necessary relationships across all channels. Africa has much to benefit from the architecture that we are building and hope to sustain. The TWF-TARC MOU is there a testament to the tireless efforts by members of the board to deepen connection and capabilities to see increased activities that will aid the creation, capturing and distribution of opportunities across Africa’s manufacturing value chain to Africans.“
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The MOU between TWF and TARC thrusts on TWF the responsibility for the coordination of all welding personnel certification, welding inspection, audit, and accreditation of manufacturers’ welder services on the project. This aligns with the cardinal purpose of TWF which is to see increased African content utilization and optimization across value chain openings in Africa’s manufacturing industries.
Membership spread across Africa. TARC is a trans Africa railway connection project that connects corridors across 32 African countries with a job creation opening of an average 100,000 opportunities (direct and indirect) across all connected corridors.