state owned company industry rail transport predecessor spoornet successor tfr founded 1910 headquarters johannesburg south africa key people ravi nair ceo nozipho sithole coo nomfuyo galeni cfo revenue ca . r14 bn as of 2006 update number of employees ca. 25 000 website www.transnetfreightrail.co.za transnet freight rail locale southern africa dates of operation 1910 present track gauge 1 067 mm 3 ft 6 in headquarters johannesburg transnet freight rail is a south african rail transport company formerly known as spoornet . it was part of the south african railways and harbours administration a state controlled organisation that employed hundreds of thousands of people for decades from the first half of the 20th century and was widely referred to by the initials sar & h sas & h in afrikaans . customer complaints about serious problems with transnet freight rail s service were reported in 2010 . 1 its head office is in the inyanda house in parktown johannesburg . 2 contents 1 operations 2 business units 3 links to neighbouring countries 4 ongoing projects 5 see also 6 references 7 external links operations edit transnet freight rail is a freight logistics and passenger transport railway . it is the largest freight hauler in africa . the company comprises several businesses gfb commercial general freight business transnet s largest division ; handles over 50 % of its freight ; coal line serving coal exporters on the mpumalanga richards bay line ; second largest coal railway in the world delivering 62 million tonnes of coal also known as black gold in the year ending 31 march 2010 ; 3 ore export line dedicated to iron ore transport on the sishen to saldanha line ; luxrail the operation of the blue train which is designed as a five star hotel on wheels . transnet also formerly owned shosholoza meyl the non luxury long distance passenger rail service . shosholoza meyl was transferred to the passenger rail agency of south africa on 23 december 2008 . a line in the eastern cape is leased to kei rail . 4 business units edit transnet freight rail is divided into 6 business units 5 agriculture and bulk liquids abl coal business unit coal line intermodal container and automotive business unit cab johannesburg durban line iron ore and manganese business unit kimberley port elizabeth & ore export line mineral mining and chrome business unit mmc witbank komatipoort & phalaborwa komatipoort lines steel and cement business unit sac the launch of the business units took place in a company wide event for all managerial staff on 18 april 2012 . links to neighbouring countries edit the south african rail network the transnet rail network is linked to all of south africa s neighbouring countries transnamib of namibia at nakop ; botswana railways at ramatlabama ; national railways of zimbabwe and the beitbridge bulawayo railway at beitbridge ; mozambique ports and railways at ressano garcia ; swazi rail of swaziland at golela and mananga ; maseru in lesotho on the maseru branch line owned by transnet . ongoing projects edit maputo corridor transnet freight rail is developing a plan with the railroad development corporation to transport magnetite from phalaborwa to maputo as feedstock for a proposed steel plant in maputo . in may 2010 transnet revealed a five year plan involving rail projects costing r52bn . most of this would be spent on new rolling stock including 304 locomotives and 7231 wagons . r4bn would be spent on infrastructure connecting majuba coal fired power station with the richards bay freight railway . 6 transnet is upgrading the rail corridor which connect the port of ngqura with manganese mines around hotazel in the northern cape . the corridor would be 1 003 kilometres 623 mi long and would mostly involve upgrades of existing lines ; capacity is expected to increase from 5 5 million tonnes year to 16 mpta . 7 swazilink is expected to connect from lothair to sidvokodvo in swaziland at a cost of r17 billion . 8 see also edit south africa portal trains portal companies portal category locomotives of south africa hex river tunnel list of south african locomotive classes references edit concerns over rail freight service . railways africa . archived from the original on 21 march 2012 . retrieved 2010 10 17 . contact us . transnet freight rail . retrieved on 15 april 2013 . physical address inyanda house 15 girton road parktown 2193 tfr reports record coal figures . railways africa . retrieved 2010 10 18 . kei rail south africa jane s world railways . retrieved 2010 10 19 . tfr media releases . retrieved 2012 08 09 . transnet five year plan . railway gazette . 2010 . retrieved 2010 05 15 . transnet to expand heavy haul operations . railway gazette international . retrieved 10 june 2013 . new swaziland link line to run in 2017 . railways africa . retrieved 2 july 2014 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to transnet freight rail . official website transnet website south african trains a pictorial encyclopaedia retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title transnet freight rail & oldid 742541672 categories transnetrailway companies of south africahidden categories use south african english from november 2012all wikipedia articles written in south african englisharticles containing potentially dated statements from 2006all articles containing potentially dated statementsarticles that mention track gauge 1067 mmcommons category with local link same as on wikidatause dmy dates from january 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages afrikaansdeutschitalianoportugu srom n edit links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 09 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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