[miningmx.com] – SOUTH African coal miners can cut costs and improve efficiencies were its sector to develop inland terminals, said BDLive citing analysts and industry expert comments at a recent coal conference.
Speaking at the Fossil Fuel Foundation’s conference on logistics, analyst Xavier Prevost said an inland coal terminal would facilitate trading and serve industrial customers who were moving to generate their own power to replace Eskom supply.
Transnet commercial GM Divyesh Kalan said the transport parastatal was servicing 44 coal sidings, but 80% of the coal it carried came from only 14 of them.
By establishing an inland terminal, the number of sidings could be reduced, which would improve efficiencies and throughput, he said.
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