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November 16, 2011

Transnet South Africa news. Google. 16th November 2011

Transnet starts fixed scheduled trains as pensioners wait for answers

Independent Online - ‎9 hours ago‎
TRANSNET Freight Rail (TFR) launched its “fixed scheduled services” programme yesterday. This aims to offer improved efficiency and an overhaul of the previously used “tonnage-based dispatching” system, which the rail utility admits disrupted the use ...

S.Africa's Transnet moves to scheduled rail service

Reuters Africa - ‎18 hours ago‎
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African freight logistics group Transnet said on Tuesday it was rolling out a scheduled railway service that would stick to strict timetables, replacing its current system in which trains only depart when they are loaded. ...

Transnet launches freight timetable

Independent Online - ‎21 hours ago‎
Transnet Freight Rail has introduced a timetable for arrival and departures of its freight trains to improve reliability and consistency of its services. CEO Siyabonga Gama said on Tuesday the scheduled services would allow for Transnet to increase the ...

Glimmer of light at the end of the Transnet tunnel

Daily Maverick - ‎6 hours ago‎
After years of bad news at Transnet, we're getting a flicker of some good news from Transnet Freight Rail. At a press conference on Tuesday, TFR chief executive Siyabonga Gama announced the company would be implementing scheduled rail links. ...

Sherilee L. Lakmidas

BusinessLIVE - ‎6 hours ago‎
Transnet has been battling to slough off a reputation of being unreliable and hampering the growth of freight-based business, particularly commodities producers which rely on the service to get their materials to export markets. ...

Transnet improves its freight rail

Sowetan - ‎6 hours ago‎
TRANSNET Freight Rail yesterday began the implementation of its scheduled railway services to improve efficiency of transporting goods. The schedule specifies the path that each train takes and the arrival and departure times of each train on every ...

Transnet to migrate rail to fixed-schedule service by mid-2012

Creamer Media's Engineering News - ‎22 hours ago‎
Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has started migrating its general freight business (GFB) to a scheduled service having hitherto operated a tonnage-based dispatching model, whereby trains waited for loads to accumulate before departing. ...

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