KUMBA Iron Ore may need more capacity on Transnet’s Sishen to Saldanha Bay railway, but where volume isn’t in shortage is in ...

Transport Minister Barbara Creecy reports that Transnet is preparing to release request for proposal (RFP) documents for three large private sector participation (PSP) projects in 2026, including one ...

Kumba Iron Ore delivered a strong performance for the year to end-December 2025. CEO Mpumi Zikalala said this was marked by an improved realised price, marginal sales growth and disciplined capital ...

Global experience shows that subsidies remain common where rail is treated as a national economic priority, the CEO said.

Transnet has started the process of partnering with private sector companies that are set to use the state-owned transport group’s vast rail network across South Africa to operate trains independently ...

Transnet’s rail network is at a crucial juncture as the utility has indicated that it needs over R70 billion to address significant deterioration caused by financial underinvestment and rampant theft ...

On Christmas Eve 2024, the Department of Transport released a final network statement that sets out the process of ending Transnet’s monopoly on rail and bringing in private-sector players to ...

Transnet was on track to return to profitability by the end of next month, Group CEO Michelle Philips told delegates on the second day of the twenty-first annual Southern African Coal Conference, in ...

Transnet has secured an R18.5 billion ($1 billion) loan from the African Development Bank as part of a larger plan to fix SA’s rail and ports networks, which have hobbled economic growth in recent ...

Transnet’s freight rail monopoly is about to end following the publication of a rail network statement that allows private operators access to South Africa’s nearly 21 000 kilometre rail network.