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Article: South Africa : Transnet studying export-channel partnership with manganese miners.
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- October 30, 2009
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Byline: manish03
State freight logistics group Transnet, in consultation with manganese exporters, expects to decide within the "next four to five months" whether to develop a new export channel through the deepwater harbour at Saldanha Bay, on South Africa's West Coast, or to proceed with an alternative model involving ports on the country's eastern seaboard.
Acting CEO Chris Wells tells Engineering News Online that the group is also interrogating several possible private-sector participation (PSP) models for the two alternatives, both of which would involve "significant investment".
He refuses to be drawn, however, on the amount of capital ...