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Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has resumed mainline operations on its ore corridor in the Northern Cape. Operations on the rail line linking South Africa’s iron-ore hub in the Northern Cape province...
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As State-owned entities (SOEs) continue to rely on government bailouts and dominate the guarantee portfolio of the fiscus, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has announced conditional in-year...
Separation of TFR’s infrastructure, operator functions to open way for big third-party ramp-up State-owned freight logistics group Transnet aims to launch a dedicated infrastructure manager...
African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MPs tore into Transnet Group CEO Portia Derby on Wednesday, accusing her of "doing nothing" to arrest the company's slide into...
State-owned logistics company Transnet plans to shrink the 20 000 km freight rail network it operates by at least 35% as it focuses on delivering more profitable cargo loads. Transnet, which also...
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State-owned Transnet says it has reached an impasse with CRRC E-Loco Supply, following an "unwillingness" on the part of CRRC to engage with the relevant authorities in South Africa to normalise...
Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) insists that valuable lessons have been gained from a recent attempt to sell 16 slots on its Cape and Container corridors, which resulted in only one applicant emerging...
The African Rail Industry Association (ARIA) says State-owned freight utility Transnet’s reluctance to implement structural reforms is costing the economy and South Africa’s international...
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Transnet Freight Rail CEO Sizakele Mzimela has reported that the group’s plan to procure new locomotives will be put on hold.
Better-than-expected revenue collection enabled Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to report an improvement in government’s fiscal position relative to the one forecast in the February Budget....
As it celebrates 35 years of operation, private rail operator Traxtion has called for open rail access in South Africa, to enable the company to replicate similar success and freedom it has enjoyed...
Transnet and its recognised unions – the United National Transport Union and the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union – will reconvene talks at the Commission for Conciliation,...
Why does it take 354 working days for South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) to issue a prospecting right which Botswana accomplishes in 40 days? Mineral Council South...
Southern African industrial company Mergence Industrial Group (MIG) has increased its stake in precision sheet-metal and plate engineering company Lasercraft to 100%, as part of the group’s growth...
State-owned freight logistics group Transnet announced on Monday that an in-principle agreement had been reached with Alstom in relation to a legal dispute arising from an electric locomotive...
The National Prosecuting Authority has indicted McKinsey South Africa on charges of fraud, theft and corruption related to State capture at Transnet. The NPA's Investigating Directorate announced...
Metrorail has withdrawn its train service between Malmesbury and Cape Town, in what the Western Cape government has dubbed a "major setback". Metrorail said the withdrawal of diesel trains and...
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South Africa’s Transnet and China’s CRRC E-Loco announced on Wednesday that an in-principle agreement had been reach “towards the resolution of all current legal disputes between the two companies,...
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