Inside Pravin Gordhan's Chinese mission to get trains back on track
More locomotives won't solve the wider problems at Transnet, though, say industry experts
07 May 2023 - 08:57
Executives at Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) told public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan at a meeting last week that inadequate investment in rail infrastructure by the state was one of the reasons the company was in trouble.
Gordhan this week led a delegation to China to push for the resolution of a long-standing impasse with that country’s state-owned rail supplier, CRRC, which has withheld spare parts and locomotives after a R54bn contract it entered into with Transnet was nullified...
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