South Africa’s turn for strikes: do they impact global supply chains?
Port and rail strikes are becoming a global trend lately and another burden or maybe a necessary evil for the supply chain. Following the massive…
New world record: 375 wagons on single train
A new record has been set in the category ‘freight train with the largest number of wagons’. The South African railway company Transnet SOC Limited…
Mozambique regains South African coal cargo service
Mozambique’s publicly owned port and rail company CMF has regained its rail freight service carrying coal from South Africa to the Port of Matola, in…
Braking energy of diesel-hauled freight trains can be stored
Transnet is developing a system that recovers and reuses braking energy in diesel-hauled freight trains. The waste energy generated by braking applications on the unpowered…