{"id":15791,"date":"2012-10-22T18:20:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-1-s-africas-transnet-awards-contract-to-csr-zhuzhou\/"},"modified":"2012-10-22T18:20:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:20:50","slug":"update-1-s-africas-transnet-awards-contract-to-csr-zhuzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-s-africas-transnet-awards-contract-to-csr-zhuzhou\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-S.Africa&#8217;s Transnet awards contract to CSR Zhuzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds details)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 22 (Reuters) &#8211; South African state rail<br \/>\nfreight group Transnet said on Monday it had awarded a<br \/>\ncontract for 95 electric locomotives to a group led by China&#8217;s<br \/>\nCSR Zhuzhou Electric.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trains will be used in Transnet&#8217;s general freight<br \/>\nbusiness, with the first batch to be delivered by December 2013,<br \/>\nTransnet said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The group said it would also seek to procure 1,064<br \/>\nlocomotives in the next quarter at a cost of R35 billion, which<br \/>\nit said was unprecedented in South Africa&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The procurement will lay a platform for a 7-year strategic<br \/>\npartnership between Transnet and their suppliers in the<br \/>\nlocomotive cluster,&#8221; the group said.    <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Tosin Sulaiman; Editing by David Dolan)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds details) JOHANNESBURG Oct 22 (Reuters) &#8211; South African state rail freight group Transnet said on Monday it had awarded a contract for 95 electric locomotives to a group led by China&#8217;s CSR Zhuzhou Electric. The trains will be used in Transnet&#8217;s general freight business, with the first batch to be delivered by December 2013, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}