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Transnet Freight Rail

Transnet Freight Rail is a South African rail transport company, formerly known as Spoornet. It was part of the South African Railways and Harbours Administration, a state-controlled organisation that employed hundreds of thousands of people for decades from the first half of the 20th century and was widely referred to by the initials SAR&H (SAS&H in Afrikaans). Customer complaints about serious problems with Transnet Freight Rail's service were reported in 2010.[1] Its head office is in Inyanda House in Parktown, Johannesburg.[2]

Company type

Subsidiary

Rail transport

Spoornet

1910

Johannesburg
,
South Africa
  • Ravi Nair (CEO)
  • Lloyd Tobias (COO)
  • Nomfuyo Galeni (CFO)

ca. R14 bn as of 2006

ca. 25,000

Transnet

www.transnetfreightrail.co.za

Johannesburg

Southern Africa

1910–present

1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)

GFB Commercial (General Freight Business) – Transnet's largest division; handles over 50% of its freight;

Coal Line, serving exporters on the Mpumalanga – Richards Bay line; second largest coal railway in the world, delivering 62 million tonnes of coal (also known as "Black Gold") in the year ending 31 March 2010;[6]

coal

– dedicated to iron ore transport on the Sishen to Saldanha line;

Ore Export Line

– The operation of the Blue Train, which is designed as a five-star hotel on wheels.

Luxrail

Transnet Freight Rail is a freight logistics and passenger transport railway. It is the largest freight hauler in Africa. The company comprises several businesses:


Transnet also formerly owned Shosholoza Meyl, the non-luxury long-distance passenger rail service. Shosholoza Meyl was transferred to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa on 23 December 2008. A line in the Eastern Cape is leased to Kei Rail.[7]

Agriculture and Bulk Liquids ("ABL")

Coal Business Unit (Coal Line)

Intermodal (Container) and Automotive Business Unit ("CAB") (Johannesburg-Durban Line)

Iron Ore and Manganese Business Unit (Kimberley-Port Elizabeth &

Ore Export Line

Mineral Mining and Chrome Business Unit ("MMC") (Witbank-Komatipoort & Phalaborwa-Komatipoort Lines)

Steel and Cement Business Unit ("SAC")

Transnet Freight Rail is divided into 6 Business Units:[8]


The launch of the Business Units took place in a company wide event for all managerial staff on 18 April 2012.

: Transnet Freight Rail is developing a plan with the Railroad Development Corporation to transport magnetite from Phalaborwa to Maputo as feedstock for a proposed steel plant in Maputo.

Maputo Corridor

In May 2010, revealed a five-year-plan involving rail projects costing R52Bn. Most of this would be spent on new rolling stock, including 304 locomotives and 7231 wagons. R4Bn would be spent on infrastructure connecting Majuba coal-fired power station with the Richards Bay freight railway.[9]

Transnet

is upgrading the rail corridor which connect the Port of Ngqura with manganese mines around Hotazel in the Northern Cape. The corridor would be 1,003 kilometres (623 mi) long, and would mostly involve upgrades of existing lines; capacity is expected to increase from 5·5 million tonnes / year to 16 mpta.[10]

Transnet

is expected to connect from Lothair to Sidvokodvo in Eswatini, at a cost of R17 billion.[11]

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Official website

Archived 11 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine

Transnet website

South African Trains – A Pictorial Encyclopaedia