TransNamib, the state-owned rail operator in Namibia has sold twenty of its older Class 32 diesel-electric locomotives to a company in Brazil, in a deal believed to be worth R29 million.
This follows a recent export by Spoornet of thirty diesel-electric locomotives also to Brazil, where Spoornet has obtained a share in a railroad in the south of that country. The South African locomotives are still awaiting shipment from Durban, but their Namibian counterparts have already been loaded on board the FRET vessel Sologne, which has sailed for Brazil.
TransNamib has announced it intends replacing the Class 32 locomotives with twelve new diesel-electrics as soon as current negotiations regarding their financing has been completed.
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