LOCO DELIVERY DELAYS
Posted on 09 July 2009
Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has taken delivery of the first five of 50 “like-new” class 39-200 diesel-electric locomotives being manufactured at Koedoespoort jointly by Transnet Rail Engineering and Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD). The project is budgeted at R887 million. Contractual and manufacturing problems led to a 12-month delay.
The delivery of Class 19E 110 dual-voltage locomotives, a contract worth R3.4 billion, has fallen behind schedule by a full year, Engineering News reports. The order dovetails with the Richards Bay coal line’s expansion to above 71 million tons capacity a year.
TFR has taken delivery of the first three class 19E locos and between six and eight units are to be delivered every quarter by Union Carriage & Wagon at Nigel. “Similar production delays had been experienced wit the R1.4 billion programme to buy 44 locomotives for the iron-ore channel, which had led to an eight-month delay,” Engineering News says. “Under the revised schedule, seven locos should be delivered in 2009, 25 next year, and the final 12 during 2011. “By the end of 2009, TFR expected to have taken delivery of 70 new or like-new locomotives and some 200 by the end of 2010, representing about 10% of its entire locomotive fleet.”
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Transnet Rail Engineering have to date delivered 6 Class 39-200 units to Transnet Freight Rail. These locomotives are currently in testing.