South Africa's Transnet Freight Rail completed scheduled maintenance on its coal transport lines Monday evening after a one-week shutdown, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
The planned shutdown was carried out to perform annual maintenance work on the 580-km line, which carries 72 million-74 million mt of thermal coal from the Witbank coal area to the Richards Bay Coal Terminal annually for delivery into the export market, said Mike Asefovitz, spokesman for the national carrier.
Trains have begun loading already from the Witbank coal mines, which coordinated annual maintenance with TFR, he said.
RBCT also performed maintenance over the course of week.
"We did this in conjunction with the mines and RBCT," Asefovitz said. "They closed down as well."
