New facility adds rail export capacity

In the first part of a new
development, which
SACD Freight sees as
“a win-win situation”
between it and Transnet
Freight Rail (TFR), the
company has opened
a fully-equipped,
50-wagon rail siding at
the City Deep inland
port in Johannesburg,
according to Gautengbased
regional director,
Dennis Trotter.
“We’ve doubled
this siding in size,” he
told FTW, “and have
installed two 35-tonne
gantry cranes to load/
unload wagons, and
three 45-tonne reach
stackers to move
containers on and off
the stacks and about the
yard.”
This facility is
initially planned to
handle an export train
a day – carrying loads
of SACD’s export boxes
from Gauteng down to
the Port of Durban.