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Sustainability Report 2012 - Transnet

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Economic dividends (continued)“<strong>Transnet</strong> Freight Rail did remarkably wellin the second half of 2011 and surprisedthe industry with its efficiency. We are alsoencouraged by what Freight Rail hasachieved so far in <strong>2012</strong>.”Sipho NkosiChief Executive Officer: Exxaro, <strong>2012</strong>GFB VOLUMESINCREASE 9,9%TO 81,0 MTIN 2011/12THREE TIMES ANNUALGDP GROWTH38 NEW CLASS 43DIESEL-ELECTRICLOCOMOTIVES INOPERATIONIN 2011/12General freight businessFreight Rail transported 81,0mt for the 2011/12 year in theGeneral Freight Business (GFB), reflecting a positive growth of9,9% compared to 73,7mt in 2010/11, more than three timesannual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. This is the highestyear-on-year growth rate achieved by Freight Rail over recentyears, bringing GFB to pre-2008 economic crisis volumes.Locomotive efficiency (GTK per loco per month) is reflecting amarginal improvement compared to the prior year. Whilston-time departure and arrival deviations are above the plannedlevels, average delays from scheduled departure and arrivaltimes improved, by 18,9% and 17,7% respectively. The ‘YardCountdown Tool’ implemented as part of the Scheduled Railwaystrategy is resulting in positive improvements, which isevidenced by the significant decrease in the departure schedulefrom 304 minutes in February <strong>2012</strong> to only 169 minutes inMarch <strong>2012</strong> (also below the target of

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