SA rail utility, manganese miners mull 12Mt/y export channel ‘partnership’
October 29, 2009 by goldguru · Leave a Comment
State freight logistics group Transnet, in consultation with manganese exporters, expects to decide within the "next four to five months" whether to develop a new export channel through the deep-water harbour at Saldanha Bay, on South Africa’s West Coast, or to proceed with an alternative model involving ports on the country’s eastern seaboard.
CEO Chris Wells tells Mining Weekly Online that the group is also interrogating several possible private sector participation (PSP) models for the two alternatives, both of which would involve "significant investment.
