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Africa's state-controlled ports and rail company Transnet has
launched a train with a world-record number of cars in a bid to move reduce
road traffic where it results damage and congestion, reports Bloomberg.
The
train, which had 375 cars and was more than four kilometres (2.5 miles) long,
carried 23,625 tonnes of manganese ore, Transnet said in a
statement. The route it travelled is 861 kilometres from Sishen
in South Africa's Northern Cape province to the west coast Port
of Saldanha, 75 miles north of Cape Town.
South Africa competes with Australia for the length of
its freight trains. In Australia the trains transport iron
ore mined by companies including Rio Tinto to ports.
"This is another breakthrough for the heavy-haul
railway industry," Transnet Freight Rail's general manager,
Brian Monakali, said. "Rio Tinto Australia recently started with
the implementation of driver-less trains in their iron ore railway system.
Transnet has now successfully operationalised the 375-wagon train."
Manganese is used in steel making. South Africa has the
word's biggest deposits of the ore.
Source : HKSG / Photo : Mining Review Africa.
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