Transnet Freight Rail has announced that only two companies took part in its auction of slots on the Kroonstad to East London route, on the Cape Corridor.
By Staff Reporter
Nyazura: The locomotive which derailed and killed an engineman between Tsungwesi and Tikwiri between Mutare and Harare recently was on a hire from a South African company Traxtion Sheltam.
Two fitters from Traxtion Sheltam who were seconded to National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) to service the engines were seriously injured during the accident.
The South African hired locomotive was pulling 22 wagons with 800 tonnes of chrome ore to Port City of Beira in Mozambique.
The ore belonged to Zimasco which had hired the locomotive and the wagons.
The engineman died on the spot after he was trapped in between the wagon while the NRZ guard was injured.