Transnet freight rail collision – DA calls for firm timelines on export line restoration

From Dr Mimmy Gondwe MP — DA Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises

Following the regrettable event in which 2 Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) trains, communicating coal, clashed on the export coal line to Richard’s Bay– the DA is making a direct require the clear and transparent handling of the mishap by TFR.

It is essential that TFR openly launches the complete mishap report and additional supplies routine updates on the development being made to clear the scene of the mishap and company timelines on when the impacted export line will be brought back to complete operation. Any extended hold-ups will be destructive to business operations of significant product exporters who count on the impacted export coal line to carry their products to port.

This mishap might quickly have actually been prevented had actually TFR not been dragging its feet in relation to digitising its system for the tracking and scheduling of its freight rail. The effect of this newest mishap now needs TFR to offer comprehensive factors behind the postponed execution of a digitised system for the tracking and scheduling of its freight rail in spite of a tender being released in 2022 for such a system.

It confuses factor that TFR still utilizes a manual system to track and arrange its freight rail, which is an odd system that depends on signalling devices and phone interaction and leaves sufficient space for human mistake.

Transnet has actually been an albatross around the neck of our economy for a long time now, from inefficient ports to a collapsing rail network. South Africa’s comatose economy can not pay for anymore logistics shocks or crises and this is specifically why the DA is requiring an immediate cleaning of the afflicted part of the export coal line and the timely remediation of operations.

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