Laduma for Gautrain as service is set to kick off on June 8

Phase one of the Gautrain rapid-rail link, stretching from OR Tambo International Airport to Sandton station, will be ready for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, says Gautrain Management Agency (GMA) CEO Jack van der Merwe. "The document is on my table,...

Transnet officially sanctions R93,4bn capex plan, outlines role for private sector

State-owned transport utility Transnet has officially approved an enlarged five-year capital investment plan, which should see it investing some R93-billion over the five-year period until 2015. The previous five-year figure to 2014, involved an...

Gautrain track-laying reaches midpoint

Nearly 50% of the Gautrain rapid-rail link’s 150 km of track had been laid by the end of January.

Gauteng government readies bus service in case Gautrain talks fail

While negotiations are continuing on whether the first phase of the Gautrain, running from Sandton to the OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA), will be ready for the FIFA World Cup, the Gauteng province has issued and closed a tender for bus...

Botswana rail to expand fleet

Botswana Railway plans to add 160 open salt wagons to its fleet for ferrying bulk salt in Southern Africa. Botswana Railway procurement manager Mogwena Mookodi told Engineering News Onlne that the extra wagons would be used to transport salt from...

Irregularity in Transnet locomotive contract - auditors

Transnet's external auditors Deloitte & Touche have found a "reportable irregularity" in terms of the Auditing Profession Act in a contract concluded by suspended Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) CEO Siyabonga Gama. The parastatal said on Tuesday the...

Overhead cable theft disrupts Transnet Freight Rail's operations

The theft of overhead cables had reached "unprecedented levels", with an average of ten trains cancelled each day as a result of cable theft, South Africa's Transnet Freight Rail reported this week. The utility noted that the direct replacement...

Transport ‘command centre’ 
to be set up for World Cup

The Department of Transport (DoT) will set up a transport command and call centre for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, “to ensure efficient and effective transport”.