Logistics remained one of the most critical challenges facing South Africas mining sector, with rail performance having bottomed out and ports under sustained pressure to deliver, said Mzila Mthenjane, CEO of the Minerals Council South Africa.
Transnets rail performance is trending upwards from its low of 149 million tonnes of all freight in 2022. In 2024, Transnet lifted deliveries 10 million tonnes higher than 2022, reaching 160 million tonnes. Were anticipating about 168 million tonnes in the current financial year to end-March, he said.
Speaking on the first day of the Investing in African Mining Indaba currently under way in Cape Town, Mthenjane said the 77-million-tonne plunge in railed volumes over five years to the 149 million tonnes moved in 2022 was quite rightly categorised as a crisis.
