Once short-term and medium-term rail restoration has been achieved, a best-of-breed approach should be adopted to put South Africa on a competitive logistics path, says thermal coal exporter Thungela. “We need to develop a model that allows a best-of-breed to be able to run some of the critical infrastructure so that our national logistics are much more efficient,” said Thungela CEO July Ndlovu, who questioned the sustainability of the traditional South African model of the State providing all critical infrastructure and highlighting the distinct ‘swim lanes’ that need urgent attention in restoring this country’s broken rail logistics infrastructure.
JOHANNESBURG – Once short-term and medium-term rail restoration has been achieved, a best-of-breed approach should be adopted to put South Africa on a competitive logistics path, says thermal coal exporter Thungela.
“We’re encouraged by the setting up of the national logistics committee to tackle some these issues on an urgent basis,” Ndlovu added.What needs to be done by Transnet in the short, medium, and long term and is that being matched by what is being done in the short term for the medium term and long term?The best metaphor for this is swimming and swimming lanes and the swim lanes that we ought to be looking at.
The second swim lane relates to the fact that we will not be able to get Transnet back to its capacity of railing more than 70-million tonnes of coal a year unless we bring back both the long-term standing locomotives and the new locomotives, and the new locos can be sourced from the Chinese that was supposed to supply them or from somebody else.
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