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Zimbabwe's infrastructure decade — and the role of plant logistics.
I've been moving heavy equipment in this country since the late 1990s. I have seen contracts dry up to nothing and I have seen yards full of iron with no operators to run them. What is happening now is different. The road network is being rebuilt, the lithium projects in Goromonzi and Bikita are breaking ground, and the energy sector is finally signing off on the substations and feeder lines that have been on paper for a decade.
The bottleneck, as it always is, will be plant logistics. Anyone can sell you a tonnage rate. Very few people can guarantee that the excavator you booked twelve weeks out will actually be on a low-bed and at your gate on the morning you need it. That gap — between the contract and the iron — is where this business lives.
For Zimbabwean operators the next five years are not about chasing the biggest cheque. They are about building the operational discipline to deliver on the cheques we already have. Owned fleet. In-house workshop. Permitted cross-border capacity. Operators that the principal contractor trusts.