{"id":49890,"date":"2026-11-03T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49890"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:13:04","slug":"sas-grindrod-to-begin-coal-haulage-on-transnet-rail-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-grindrod-to-begin-coal-haulage-on-transnet-rail-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Grindrod to begin coal haulage on Transnet rail in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grindrod will begin hauling coal from South African (SA) mines to Mozambique in 2027 under a deal giving private operators access \u200cto state-owned logistics company Transnet&#8217;s freight rail network, the companies said this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SA is reforming its freight rail sector to allow private firms to run trains on Transnet&#8217;s network, \u2060which is struggling to keep up with demand<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Transnet&#8217;s rail infrastructure unit has signed access agreements with 11 private train operating companies, including Grindrod, to boost freight rail volumes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grindrod plans to transport about 288 000 metric tons of coal from Mpumalanga to its Matola Terminal in Mozambique in its \u200cfirst \u2060year of operating on Transnet&#8217;s North-East corridor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The private logistics company said it had successfully completed a test train round trip on the line on November \u20602<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The government expects private train operators to carry an additional 20 million tons of freight annually, advancing its \u2060goal of transporting 250 million tons by rail annually by 2029<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Transnet reported 167.9 million tons \u2060freight rail volume in the year ended March 2026, a 5% increase on the previous year<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13191,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-49890","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Grindrod will begin hauling coal from South African (SA) mines to Mozambique in 2027","published_date":"2026-11-03 18:11:51","news_description":"Grindrod will begin hauling coal from South African (SA) mines to Mozambique in 2027","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49892,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49890\/revisions\/49892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}