The Wadeville Alrode Industrial Corridor project is aimed at creating an integrated platform for the expansion of the tradable goods sector and supporting exports, especially into sub-Saharan Africa.

The purpose of Blue IQ’s involvement and funding in the project was to regenerate a geographically significant manufacturing corridor which had degenerated due to exogenous changes in macro-economic policy. Situated between the Johannesburg International Airport and the City Deep terminal, this East Rand corridor had been home to many local manufacturing firms that failed to survive in the post sanctions era, WTO-tariff reduction era. Fundamentally good infrastructure lay wasting and under-utilised.

Infrastructure and support services in the area are being upgraded so as to optimally utilise exiting infrastructure, take advantage of the locational benefits of the area, thereby creating an integrated platform for the expansion of the tradable goods sector and supporting exports, especially into sub-Saharan Africa.