State-owned freight logistics utility Transnet received yet another qualified audit for its 2018/19 financial year and also announced a dramatic rise in irregular expenditure to R49-billion, after... 

A Harmony Gold employee died in a surface rail locomotive related accident at the Doornkop gold plant on Sunday. "Harmony management wish to express their deepest condolences to the deceased... 

A worker died in a locomotive accident at Impala Platinum’s (Implats’) Impala Rustenburg 1 Shaft this week. Implats on Thursday said that, as far as it was aware, Nelso Thipe’s locomotive was... 

A decisive intervention to turn around Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) and improve its operational performance while rebuilding its engineering capacity to drive the modernisation... 

JSE-listed freight and financial services company Grindrod has, this month, taken delivery of 20 of its locomotives that had been recovered and transported from Sierra Leone to the Port of Durban.... 

In a context of increasing competition, growing demand and tighter management of operational and capital costs, freight railways are constantly looking for ways to increase efficiency by boosting... 

As it keeps the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in mind, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) is hopeful that the upcoming International Heavy Haul Association (IHHA) conference will provide the... 

In assessing applied competencies in terms of training and working on mining machinery, there must be a balance between theoretical, practical and workplace competences that are suited to a... 

Original equipment manufacturer Bombardier Transportation South Africa (BTSA) wants to be an integral part of South Africa’s growth story as it pursues localisation ambitions beyond 60%. South... 

State-owned logistics group Transnet will, during the course of April and May, seek to secure “just and equitable” negotiations with the four original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) supplying it... 

Sierra Metals has been granted environmental approval for its Yauricocha tailings expansion project. 

The net profit of Harmony Gold plunged in the six months to December 31, dropping from R897-million for the corresponding period of last year to R75-million. However, production soared by 34% and... 

Sierra Metals has completed all the necessary work and has submitted all the required documentation to the authorities for its Yauricocha mine. 

Freight logistics group Transnet has missed its half-year coal export target by 2.3-million tons, the State-owned company reported on Wednesday, citing locomotive failures, community unrest, as... 

Sierra Metals is facing a delay at the project. 

South Africa’s diverse wealth of minerals and a well-regulated mining industry mean mines employ hundreds of thousands of mineworkers from all over Africa, states miner, refiner and marketer of... 

In support of Transport month, the Rail Road Association (RRA) of South Africa will host an inaugural career expo day this month for all rail industry players to meet learners and youth to expose... 

President Jacob Zuma climbing aboard one of the 85 electric locomotives produced at Transnet’s manufacturing and engineering facility in Koedoespoort, Pretoria. The locomotive is one of the 95... 

JSE-listed Grindrod’s rail division on Tuesday vowed to make rail operations more cost-effective in Africa, as Grindrod Locomotives unveiled its new, cost-effective fit-for-purpose shunting and... 

State-owned freight and logistics group Transnet Engineering (TE) says its membership and association with nonprofit technical organisation the Southern African Institute of Welding (SAIW), has... 

Powertech, a 100% owned subsidiary of the JSE-listed Altron group, comprising Altron TMT (amalgamation of Altech and Bytes) and Altron Power (Powertech), over the years, adjusted and reviewed... 

Johannesburg-based locomotive solutions provider DCD Rolling Stock believes it has unlimited growth potential owing to its patented Jika passive hydraulic steering (PHS) system for bogies, which is... 

A unique combination of mothballed technology and new infrastructure saw a steam locomotive dating back to the 1930s deliver 40 massive 18-m-long pipes to points along the 7 km Western Aqueduct... 

State rail company Transnet has strongly criticised the alleged insufficient accommodation of small emerging coal miners at South Africa's large private-sector-owned Richards Bay Coal Terminal... 

Gauteng-based DCD Rolling Stock launched its patented Jika passive hydraulic steering (PHS) system for locomotives, earlier this month at the TransAfrica expo, in Johannesburg.