Transnet Freight Rail is making progress with its more than R1 billion plan to upgrade its southern rail corridor, which is vital to the automotive industry and other sectors.
The upgrading and development of the high-capacity southern rail corridor to Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth, is regarded as strategically important to South Africa because it will take pressure off the KwaZulu-Natal corridor and the port of Durban as largely the sole port for imports and exports.
Neale Hill, president of the Ford Motor Company Africa region, warned in November last year that the company anticipates it will have 79 trucks a day transporting its next-generation Ranger from its Silverton plant to the Durban port in 2025 if the challenges with the rail network are not fixed. moneyweb.co.za