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Q-Free wins its second tag order from South Africa in as many months

Q-Free has received its second multi-million dollar tag order from ETC, a joint venture led by Kapsch TrafficCom in South Africa, for use on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project.
February 2, 2012 Read time: 1 min
108 Q-Free has received its second multi-million dollar tag order from ETC, a joint venture led by 81 Kapsch TrafficCom in South Africa, for use on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project. This major project will see multilane open road tolling (ORT) on 185km, in phase one, on freeways in Gauteng Province. The value of the latest order for Q-Free is US$3.58 million and follows the US$4.6 million tag contract placed with the company just over two months ago.

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