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will on Thursday be launching the longest production train in the world at their depot in Saldanha Bay on the Cape West Coast.

Transnet says the four-kilometer long train, with 375 wagons, will also carry the highest volumes per train. The train will transport manganese over a distance of more than 860 kilometers between the Sishen mine in the Northern Cape and Saldanha Bay. Transnet says the train will go a long way in lowering the cost of doing business in the country and migrating traffic from road to rail.

 

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For what good reason!!

Train to transport what from where to where? SA doesn't have maintained rail infrastructure and 99% goods are transported via road. Transnet are not reliable.

Hope this one actually fits ..Could be the longest disaster if not

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