Botswana looks for third way

Transnet has begun increasing coal rail volumes to Richards Bay, with fewer security incidents, amid a decline in SA coal exports due to unreliable rail services.

Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Botswana will enhance the Beira-Zimbabwe-Botswana railway and develop a US$1.5 billion deepwater port at Techobanine.

Vale and Mitsui have announced that they have signed binding finance contracts for the development of the Nacala Logistics Corridor (NLC).

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Expressions of interest for the contract to build the new railway through Swaziland will be sought before the end of this year. The line will take about 16 Mtpa of general freight off the existing coal line from Ermelo to Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) in the short term, opening up capacity on that railway.

In early October, Exxaro announced that it has signed a 10-year transport agreement with Transnet to carry 7.8 Mt of coal on the Lephalale line from the Waterberg Basin to Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT). The deal is expected to trigger a big increase in output at Exxaro’s Grootegeluk mine, and the company’s CEO, Mxolisi Mgojo, said that it will invest ZAR10B (US$711M) in the area over the next five years.