Coal Line Annual Shutdown

[John Ashworth]

Coal Line Annual Shutdown

The shutdown started on 02 July 2019 and will end on the 11th July 2019, covering the entire coal line which has flows originating from the Ermelo, Vryheid, Richards Bay, Witbank, Ladysmith and Isando depots.

The Shutdown is an annual scheduled maintenance that is carried out in the month of July, to ensure that the company catches up on maintenance backlog, replaces old, obsolete and problematic infrastructure as part of sustainability of the business, as well as to accelerate the major capital expansion/upgrade projects in line with the expected volume growth.

The shutdown programme is also necessitated by the fact that on the coal line there are sections where infrastructure work cannot be carried out without stopping the entire train service...