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Transnet’s Sishen-Saldanha iron-ore train is no
longer the longest heavy hauler in the world.
Transnet breaks
own record with
manganese test train
Courtesy www.ftwonline.co.za
ON THE eve of the annual conference of the
International Heavy Haul Conference (IHHA)
in Narvik, Norway, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR)
announced that the previous world record of
running the world’s longest production train
in the world – the 4km, 342-wagon iron-ore
train between Sishen and Saldanha – had been
broken.
But the new record was not set by one
of South Africa’s heavy haul competitors:
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, India,
Norway, Russia, Sweden or the US. The new
record, one train consisting of 375 wagons
used to haul bulk minerals, was set when TFR
successfully engaged in a ‘manganese test’.
According to TFR, an increase in
manganese in South Africa had necessitated
the trial, and came after Transnet’s share of
manganese grew from 9.6 million tonnes some
two to three years ago to 14.01 million tonnes
currently. •
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