The refinery would provide up to 30 000 temporary jobs during the construction period, 1 000 permanent jobs at the refinery and a further 15 000 jobs in associated industries. Mkhize further highlighted that the clean fuel quality in South Africa was far behind many other developing countries, like China and India, as the country’s old refineries were not competitive compared with today’s technologies.
Project Mthombo would also allow the country to move away from the reliance on the Durban port, where the majority of fuels are shipped into, as well as ensure an expansion of the inland pipeline logistics, with a complementary pipeline to the inland leading to reduced logistics costs.
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