{"id":9801,"date":"2012-04-10T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/s-africas-transnet-to-boost-coal-iron-ore-rail-capacity\/"},"modified":"2012-04-10T16:04:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:04:02","slug":"s-africas-transnet-to-boost-coal-iron-ore-rail-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-transnet-to-boost-coal-iron-ore-rail-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Transnet to boost coal, iron ore rail capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tiisetso Motsoeneng<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 10<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African state-owned<br \/>\nlogistics group Transnet plans to increase its<br \/>\ncapacity to haul iron ore from mines to ports by 56 percent over<br \/>\nthe next seven years, its Chief Executive Brian Molefe said on<br \/>\nTuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Molefe also said Transnet, whose wagons carry 53 million<br \/>\ntons of iron ore currently, would increase its capacity to move<br \/>\ncoal from mines to ports from 68 million tons to 97.5 million<br \/>\ntons over the same period.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Transnet recently tripled its capital investment programme<br \/>\nto 300 billion rand ($38.09 billion)over seven years to expand<br \/>\ninfrastructure in Africa&#8217;s biggest economy, where bottlenecks on<br \/>\nrail lines and at ports have slowed exports and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Transnet moves commodities such as coal, iron ore and fuel.<br \/>\n($1 = 7.8759 South African rand)\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda)<\/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>By Tiisetso Motsoeneng JOHANNESBURG, April 10 (Reuters) &#8211; South African state-owned logistics group Transnet plans to increase its capacity to haul iron ore from mines to ports by 56 percent over the next seven years, its Chief Executive Brian Molefe said on Tuesday. Molefe also said Transnet, whose wagons carry 53 million tons of iron [&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-9801","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\/9801","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=9801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}