Coal export line outside Richards Bay cleared after train collision
One of the coal export lines at Eubana outside Richards Bay has been cleared after two trains collided on Sunday.
Transnet Freight Rail says Line 2 was declared safe for the passage of trains yesterday evening.
It says operations on Line 1 should resume before midnight on Saturday if the weather holds up.
Professor in Industrial Engineering at Stellenbosch University Jahn Havenga - says to prevent any future disasters the operation system needs to be digitised.
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"Not enough investment in infrastructure and not enough investment in communication systems, in recent times it has been made worse by crimes, by cable theft, vandalism. Although those are not the only reasons."
" You can make the calculations, the current coal price is R2000 a ton, so its R25 million times R50 Billion that our economy loses."
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