Turnaround strategies implemented at Transnet to fast-track the port and rail freight parastatals recovery have found traction in the bulk cargo shipped out via the Port of Richards Bay, Reuters reports.
An increase in coal exports of 11 to 57.66 million metric tonnes in 2025 via the Richards Bay Coal Terminal is the highest coal yield for the bulk commodities port in four years.
Although this is encouraging and underpins the state-owned entitys SOE systematic return to more robust cargo figures, last years figures are 24.13 lower than the benchmark exports figure reached in 2017, when Transnet shipped 76 million tonnes of coal through the port.
