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Saldanha ore line to receive another 32 locomotives

South Africa’s freight logistics group Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) on Wednesday announced that it had placed an order for 32 new 15E locomotives for its iron-ore line between Sishen and Saldanha, in line with a target to boost capacity to 61-million tons a year on the 860-km line. Transnet newly appointed CEO Brian Molefe said service levels were expected to improve significantly as TFR progressively...

ArcelorMittal in Saldanha Bay could be facing iron ore supply problems.

Kumba Iron Ore appears to have dealt steel giant ArcelorMittal South Africa another body blow in the ongoing battle between the two companies. The Mail & Guardian understands that Kumba has applied for a 21% share in the mining rights to the Sishen mine, which lie at the heart of the corporate bun fight. The matter is being closely watched as it ultimately goes to the heart of steel pricing in...

Superloads At Saldanha Port

CONCARGO was commissioned by World Groupage Services (a sea freight and forwarding company) to handle the transportation of a bucket wheel reclaimer and two ore stackers from Saldanha Port to a mine in Postmasburg. The total distance is approximately 850 km. The total shipment weighed in at 840 tons and measured 6 200 cubic meters. Sixty-three trucks were loaded totransport the equipment of which...

Transnet Port Terminals new management structure.

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) would intensify its focus on total quality management (TQM) and human capital and development over the next two years, in order to achieve its goal of aligning the business with global standards, TPT CEO Tau Morwe said on Friday. In a statement, TPT said that its new business model and management structure, unveiled this week, signalled a “dynamic approach” to the...

Transnet considering investment on the West Coast.

State freight logistics group Transnet, in consultation with manganese exporters, expects to decide within the “next four to five months” whether to develop a new export channel through the deepwater harbour at Saldanha Bay, on South Africa’s West Coast, or to proceed with an alternative model involving ports on the country’s eastern seaboard. Acting CEO Chris Wells tells Engineering...

Tormin Project , West Coast, South Africa

In December 2008, MRC was granted mining rights for the Tormin heavy minerals project, on the West Coast of South Africa. Final processing plant design and engineering are now taking place. “The company has commenced procedures to appoint an engi- neering group to update the existing feasibility study. Based on a positive outcome to this phase of the work, the company will let a tender for a turnkey...

Modernization of Saldanha Bay facilities ups Sea Harvest capacity to 80,000 tons.

This story was written back in October 1994 Saldanha Bay, a protected inlet some 150 kilometers north of Cape Town, is home to Sea Harvest Corporation Limited. For more than a quarter of a century its fleet has docked there to unload South African hake (Merluccius capensis) and other species caught in the cold, nutrient-rich waters of the West Coast Benguela current ecosystem. Indeed, the company’s...