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TFR transports record chrome volumes from mines to ports

14th February 2018

By: Schalk Burger

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

     

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State-owned Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has transported a record 5.77-million tons of chrome by rail from mines to the ports in the first 47 weeks of the current financial year.

This exceeds the 5.75-million tons of chrome transported by rail in the prior financial year.

TFR attributed this feat to collaboration among Transnet’s operating divisions – TFR, Transnet National Ports Authority, Transnet Port Terminals and Transnet Engineering – and customers who extended their loading shifts into the evening.

The deployment of 22E locomotives from Richards Bay to the mines in Rustenburg and Mandlazini – an alternative offloading area for chrome that has been built in Richards Bay – also contributed to the achievement of the record.

Chrome is also transported to Maputo, in Mozambique.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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