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Rail and Port Facilities
Rail
Operated by the largest division of the government owned Transnet Limited, the only line of its kind in Southern Africa, the Iron Ore line is a core business line that runs from the Northern Cape along the West Coast. The service operates with unique rolling stock designed specifically to meet customers' (Iron Ore Supplier's) special needs. Using dedicated lines, Transnet Freight Rail currently transports a total of 34 million tons of iron ore per annum. This total is set to increase to between 38 and 42 million tons by 2009.
All of the iron ore produced by Assmang will be railed to the Saldanha Bay Iron Ore terminal, making use of the services provided by Transnet Freight Rail. The iron ore is hauled on a dedicated rail link servicing Kumba Iron Ore's Sishen Mine, Khumani Mine and other players such as Burk Mining.
Assmang is supplied with trains on a daily basis, consisting of 342 wagons, each wagon capable of loading approximately 100 tons of iron ore. Therefore 1 fully loaded train is capable of hauling approximately 34,200 tons of iron ore material along the 861 km railway line to the port of Saldanha Bay, situated on the West coast of South Africa, to be exported.