Transnet Apr-Mar coal railings slip 1.4% on-year to 83.1 million mt

摘要

South African state-owned Transnet’s freightdivision, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), hauled 83.1 million mtof coal in the financial year ended March 31, slipping 1.4%from the previous year’s 84.3 million mt, it said in itsfinancial results for the year released Monday.The company attributed the drop in coal volumes to apower supply disruption at the Richards Bay Coal Terminal(RBCT) in early February, a longer-than-anticipatedmaintenance shutdown period in May and a 33-dayindustrial action by breakaway union workers in October.