N3 Toll Concession (Pty) Ltd

On 2 November 1999, N3 Toll Concession (RF) Proprietary Limited (N3TC) entered into a 30-year toll road concession contract with the South African National Roads Agency (SOC) Limited (SANRAL) to manage a 415 km section of the N3 transport corridor known as the N3 Toll Route.

The N3 Toll Route starts at the Cedara interchange in KwaZulu-Natal and ends at the Heidelberg South interchange in Gauteng.

The N3 Toll Route concession agreement is considered to be one of South Africa’s most successful public-private sector partnerships. In terms of this partnership, N3TC is responsible to design, construct, finance, operate and maintain this section of N3 Route until the concession contract ends in 2029.

The N3 Toll Route is a key transport node linking largest port, the Durban Harbour in KwaZulu-Natal to South Africa’s economic hub, Gauteng. The Route transects numerous deep rural and agricultural communities as well as small towns and villages. It meanders through four of South Africa’s provinces, namely Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal.

Transport corridors, such as the N3 Toll Route, can provide the impetus to sustainable economic growth and the alleviation of poverty through infrastructure development, creating employment opportunities, skills development, and the development and growth of business nodes along the route.

Having established sound engineering and financial platforms, N3TC has refined and expanded its business model to address its primary customer needs, namely safety, convenience and mobility.

Safety: the ability to travel on a world-class road with engineering, education and enforcement being the pillars upon which a safer N3 Toll Route is created.

Convenience: the ease with which road users – from leisure travellers, commuters, business operators to commercial hauliers – travel along the N3 Toll Route.

Mobility: where traffic congestion, construction, delays and road incidents or emergencies are managed and minimised and throughput at toll plazas is optimised.

All N3TC’s activities are underpinned by the firm commitment of its shareholders and management team to enable sustainable partnerships with all its stakeholders across the various regions and communities along the N3 Toll Route.

Excellence in the provision of infrastructure and quality service equally demands excellence in interaction with communities and customers – this is the cornerstone of N3TC’s business.