Beacon Hill confirms completion of rolling stock for Moz coal project
Dual-listed Beacon Hill Resources revealed last week that the locomotives and wagons that would enable the company to use its 500 000 t/y allocation on the Sena railway line, between Tete and Beira, had, in accordance with a prior lease agreement, been manufactured and were expected to arrive in Beira in the first quarter of the year.
The rolling stock would be used to transport the company’s and other producers’ coal over 580 km from Beacon Hill’s Minas Moatize mine area, in Tete, to Beira.
The company entered into a lease agreement in January 2013 with Thelo Rolling Stock, whereby Thelo, in conjunction with RRL Grindrod Locomotives & Transnet Engineering, would provide five new Grindrod RL30SCC-3 diesel locomotives and 90 new Gondola-type rail wagons to transport coal on the Sena railway line.
The rolling stock was currently undergoing independent inspection before being transported to Mozambique using the existing rail networks in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
The open-top type, multi-use rail wagons would be loaded on a vessel in Port Elizabeth and shipped to Beira.
“We are delighted to announce the completion of our purpose-built locomotives and wagons, a key facet of our end-to-end logistics solution, as we move up through the gears, targeting Tier 1 cash cost coking coal production from our Minas Moatize mine,” commented CEO Rowan Karstel.
Beacon Hill planned to operate two train sets on the Sena railway line, each comprising two locomotives with 42 rail wagons, each loaded with up to 63 t of coal.
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