DebTech x-ray sorter for Venetia mine

The volume of mining commodities handled by Transnet has fallen from 181.1 Mt in financial year 2020-21 to 149.5 Mt in 2022-23, with coal particularly affected.

Now operating the facility under the name ‘Reload Dry Bulk Richards Bay Facility’, the warehouse joins Reload’s portfolio, covering all of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Coal exports from Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) declined by 4% in 2018, on lower exports to South Korea.

Custom engineered transfer points from Weba Chute Systems are proving successful in an “arduous application” transferring crushed ore at the Tshipi Borwa Mine in South Africa.

Work has begun on building Transnet Freight Rail’s (TFR) 44 km rail loop to the new Boikarabelo coal mine in the Waterberg Basin in Limpopo Province.

South African transport utility Transnet has taken over the operation of an inland manganese terminal under an agreement announced in July. Private company SAFreight Logistics (Saflog) operated the facility for five years until its concession ended.