MORE CLASS 43 DIESEL-ELECTRICS
From an official Transnet release: Public Enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba has sealed an agreement for Transnet SOC Ltd’s purchase of an additional 43 locomotives from General Electric’s (GE) local arm, General Electric South Africa Technologies (Gesat). The agreement takes the total number of locomotives Transnet has bought from the manufacturer to 143. Transnet group chief [...]
TANGA-MUSOMA PROJECT QUERIED
According to Sseesamirembe Eco-City: Lake Victoria Free Trade Zone company executive director Beenunula Nunumisa, the proposed Tanga-Musoma railway needs reconsideration. A better route, he says, would be Tanga- Singida-Mutukula-Kampala. This would be a continuous, unbroken railway, whereas the route to Uganda via Musoma would necessitate goods being transhipped to a ferry on Lake Victoria. A [...]
HOW THE BLUE TRAIN TOPPED THE POPS
During January 2012, South Africa’s prestigious Blue Train was named the World’s top luxury express in 2011 – for the third consecutive year. And it wasn’t the first time a South African operation was recognised by the judges at World Travel Awards (WTA) – not by a long chalk. Other nominations for 2011 were: Eastern [...]
NAMIBIAN CABINET DISCUSSES RAIL CRISIS
During December 20111, the Namibian cabinet held a special meeting to discuss what was described in the press as the railway “crisis”, following four derailments that cost the country “millions”. Ministry of works permanent secretary George Simataa was quoted explaining that the entire Nanibian rail system – last reconstructed in the nineteen-fifties – requires upgrading. [...]
PROPOSED NEW MOZAMBIQUAN PORT AND RAILWAY
The ITD Project, which envisages a new Mozambiquan port north of the Zambezi river mouth, would provide the shortest route to the Moatize coalfields in Tete province. The Ncondezi Coal Company has signed an agreement with Rio Tinto Coal Mozambique (RTCM) and Minas Revuboe on a deal that would provide the company with up to [...]
ETHIOPIAN LIGHT RAIL
According to Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) project manager Yehualashet Jemere, most of the preliminary work needed for the new light rail line has been completed and the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), has begun construction in the vicinity of Meshualekia and Ayat Village in Addis Ababa. ERC general manager Getachew Betru expects the first [...]
BOTSWANA COAL NEEDS ‘HEAVY GAUGE”
Coal mined in Botswana will have to be moved to the coast – for export to India or China – on a new “heavy gauge” railway independent of South Africa, according to Professor Roman Greynberg, senior research fellow at the Botswana Institute of Development Policy Analysis. Writing in the Zimbabwe Independent, he explains:“Cecil Rhodes’ narrow [...]
BLUE TRAIN TOPS THE WORLD’S LIST – AGAIN
The Blue Train scooped the World’s leading Luxury Train award for the third consecutive year at a ceremony held in Doha, Qatar, during January. The World Travel Awards (WTA) acknowledges and recognises excellence in the global travel and tourism industry. Now celebrating its 19th anniversary, the WTA is regarded as the very highest achievement that [...]
TRANSNET PENSIONS UPPED BY 10%
Following a battle that has been going on for ten years, the Transnet Second Defined Benefit Fund (TSDBF) paid a 10% bonus to each of its 65,000 members during December. Their yearly pensions have been adjusted by only 2% annually during this time – in most years way below the official inflation figure. At the [...]
RECONDITIONED COACHES
Posted on sar-L by Vaughan Mostert: “Braamfontein report- No ‘new’ intercity coaches have come into service for about two years now, so the arrival of counter cars 146 (ex 23313) and 147 (no previous id) has been a bit of a surprise. Although their chassis are stencilled 2010, they seem to have entered service only [...]
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