Our partnerships enable us to bring global experience and capacity to provide bespoke solutions to current and prospective infrastructure projects and thus enhance operational efficiencies. We are able to capacitate these projects from across the full value chain including project preparation (bankable feasibility studies, training, rail reform and regulation, training and skills development and all the way through to operations & maintenance management.
About Thelo Infrastructure Development
We take a long-term view of projects and deliver on a holistic, fit-for-purpose basis across the full value chain. By turning the Thelo integrated model into key outcomes, we aim to leave a lasting legacy to advance investment, trade and economic development:

We leverage partnerships with top exponents in the field, including the exclusive partnership that we enjoy with Germany’s Deutsche Bahn for the sub-Saharan region of Africa.

Our long-term aim is to deliver these services via a holistic, fit-for-purpose model across the full value-chain that will leave a lasting legacy to advance the economic development of Africa by turning the Thelo integrated model into key outcomes:

Partnering in Mobility, Delivering Prosperity
Africa requires accelerated infrastructure development if its people and businesses are to experience economic and social success. Underpinning every aspect of this developmental gap, and its requirements, is the need for infrastructure development and associated finance solutions through collaboration.
Thelo Infrastructure Development is passionate about taking on this challenge through Thelo Group’s integrated infrastructure development and operationalisation model. We deliver solutions with the view to help unlock the many strategic levers that effective transportation offers, including advancing regional integration, sustainability and socio-economic development, and helping to address the constraints of trade enabling infrastructure and its funding – as well as its technological administrative and structural dimensions:
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Lack of investment in rail and port infrastructure
We help unlock alternative financing solutions
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Constraints within current rail and port company structures
We enable public and private sector participation for project effectiveness
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Major lack of efficient rail and port operations
We help break free from the limitations of traditional railway cultures
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Lack of experienced human capital
We put unrivalled development sector expertise in place for operational effectiveness
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Outmoded maintenance facilities
We plan appropriately for spend on equipment, personnel and facilities to manage and maintain infrastructure and equipment
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Long lead-time and cost of rolling stock
Effective, integrated planning enables us to optimally meet future demand
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Dysfunctional train control systems
Reliable communications are a primary and core element of all our rail projects
