South Africa’s Transnet has made two announcements that should help to secure increased coal volumes for Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT)...

Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa have signed an agreement enabling the transport of coal between Maputo and South Africa’s Richards ...

The completion of the planned coal railway through Swaziland to Richards Bay has also been postponed, in this case by two years. The 146 km ...

South Africa’s state owned transport operator Transnet has introduced much longer coal trains in order to increase transport capacity on t...

With its coal volumes continuing to grow, the South African port of Richards Bay needs additional capacity but there is considerable controv...

After a period of sustained disappointment, things appear to be looking up for South Africa’s coal industry and Transport Freight Rail’s...

Transport utility Transnet is pushing ahead with plans to construct its own coal export terminal at Richards Bay, separate from Richards Bay...

Transnet is also investigating the possibility of developing a new coal export terminal at Richards Bay, mainly to serve empowerment coal mi...

South African transport utility Transnet has announced that it intends to construct a new railway from Botswana to Richards Bay Coal Termina...

The last few years have been challenging for South Africa and the future is full of uncertainty, but there are positive signs for the bulk s...

Work has begun on a new railway in the heart of South Africa’s coal industry. The line, running from Ermelo to the new Majuba coal-fired p...

After years of debate and delay, it appears that Zimbabwe will finally become a significant coal exporter. The government has announced that...

Recent conflict between striking miners and the security services have created an uneasy atmosphere in the South African mining industry. Ea...

Continental Coal, the South African thermal coal production, development and exploration company, has received Section 102 approval from the...

Forbes & Manhattan Coal Corp. has said that it plans to acquire two South African coal mines from Rio Tinto subsidiary Riversdale Holdings (...