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Africa’s biggest freight rail market set for private operators
By: Bloomberg 13th March 2024 Africa’s biggest freight rail market is on the cusp of being transformed by private operators, the head of the operator of the continent’s largest... →
Cabinet and business praise Sasol and TFR for ‘first-of-its-kind’ partnership to repair 128 ammonia tankers 
By: Terence Creamer 29th February 2024 Both Cabinet and organised business have lauded the five-year public-private partnership agreement between Sasol and Transnet Freight Rail (TFR),... →
R4bn may be removed from Eskom debt-relief for failure to meet EFC sale deadline
By: Terence Creamer 21st February 2024 The South African government is proposing to reduce its planned allocations to Eskom under a previously announced R254-billion debt-relief package... →
Mining Indaba 2024 - Rail reform and liberalisation: Where we are and what it means for the South African rail sector
29th January 2024 The rail sector in South Africa is at a breaking point and urgent action is required. From a freight perspective, Transnet's incapacity to dispatch... →
New public-private rail corridor agreement already boding well – RBCT
By: Martin Creamer 25th January 2024 The three-month-old mutual cooperation agreement that the private-sector-owned Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) signed with State rail enterprise... →
Light from the tunnel?
By: Terence Creamer 24th November 2023 Reform progress in South Africa rarely moves in a straight line from A to B, with the stop/start nature of the country’s electricity reform being a... →
'There is nothing we can do.' Gordhan bemoans 'unreasonable' Chinese rail company
By: News24Wire 9th November 2023 "Transnet needs help," chairperson Andile Sangqu told MPs on Wednesday in an appeal to the government to take on some of its unsustainable debt... →
ANC calls for immediate roll-out of new electricity generation capacity 
By: Thabi Shomolekae 1st November 2023 African National Congress secretary-general Fikile Mbalula noted on Wednesday that the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement must help the nation... →
