SA wagons to carry Mozambican coal

Transnet Rail Engineering has set its sights on the rapidly growing market for rail wagons on the African continent. Speaking at a media conference to mark the loading of the last of a 200-wagon order for Rio Tinto’s coal mine rail link from the Tete province to Beira in Mozambique last week, Peter Cona, general manager wagon business at Transnet Rail Engineering (TRE), told FTW that the Mozambican coal lines alone would require three thousand wagons. Designed and made in TRE’s Uitenhage works, the 200 wagons were delivered in eight months from order through design, prototyping and testing, according to Cona. TFR has set itself a production target of 50 wagons a month. TRE has also delivered wagons to Botswana, Tanzania and Ghana, with more orders in the works.