Global experience shows that subsidies remain common where rail is treated as a national economic priority, the CEO said.

Menar is one of 11 private companies granted access through the Transnet Rail Infrastructure Manager (TRIM) scheme.

I signed one of the agreements the other day, so we will see these private operators also making use of the network. We’re hoping that as a country, we can get to 250 million tonnes by 2030,’ says ...

Transnet has started the process of partnering with private sector companies that are set to use the state-owned transport group’s vast rail network across South Africa to operate trains independently ...

Transnet was on track to return to profitability by the end of next month, Group CEO Michelle Philips told delegates on the second day of the twenty-first annual Southern African Coal Conference, in ...

On Christmas Eve 2024, the Department of Transport released a final network statement that sets out the process of ending Transnet’s monopoly on rail and bringing in private-sector players to ...

Transnet’s freight rail monopoly is about to end following the publication of a rail network statement that allows private operators access to South Africa’s nearly 21 000 kilometre rail network.

Transnet’s rail network is at a crucial juncture as the utility has indicated that it needs over R70 billion to address significant deterioration caused by financial underinvestment and rampant theft ...

Transnet has secured an R18.5 billion ($1 billion) loan from the African Development Bank as part of a larger plan to fix SA’s rail and ports networks, which have hobbled economic growth in recent ...

The 10-year timeline to fix the network is less daunting once the project is spliced into more manageable outcomes. It may cost R80 billion and take 10 years to fix Transnet’s core rail network, ...

Transnet chairperson Dr Andile Sangqu speaks to Stephen Grootes from the Mining Indaba under way in Cape Town.