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  1. Hype for the Future 141I: Ogallala Area

    Introduction The Ogallala Aquifer is named for the community in modern Keith County in the State of Nebraska, with the State of Colorado located nearby to the southwest. The general area is associated with Interstates 76 and 80 as well as United States Routes 30 and 138. Additionally, Routes 6 and 34 are located in the general vicinity toward the northeast corner of the State of Colorado. Colorado Within the State of Colorado, the communities of Julesburg and Holyoke are the most […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  2. Stuff could face unprecedented fine over Tom Phillips audio, law expert says

    “I think they [Stuff] would be trying to push it a bit to try and make those justifications,…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #200000 #Audio #Communications #company #could #died #expert #face #fine #from #Law #Legal #Media #NewZealand #night #NZ #over #phillips #police #publishing #radio #says #stuff #tom #unprecedented
    newsbeep.com/117882/

  3. Family of Tom Phillips oppose documentary on fugitive case and children’s ordeal

    One of Phillips’ children, who was with him at the time, then began assisting police and said there…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Movies #and #case #Children's #documentary #Entertainment #family #fugitive #of #on #oppose #ordeal #Phillips #sherwood #tom
    newsbeep.com/us/145957/

  4. A selection of material about Ukraine 2022 in French.

    [Ukraine] Comment en est-on arrivé là ? Résumé des raisons du conflit. (NON CENSURÉ)
    #^https://youtu.be/CS3t1dfPfFM
    #lang_fr #Raison #conflit #Ukraine #Russie #histoire


    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans le Donbass. Aout 2022 Part 24
    #^https://odysee.com/@GrenobleDebout:2/Part-24:2?r=AAWwPdJRVoB88PZYL2PwYCaM3AKRfqv7

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans le Donbass. Aout 2022 Part 23 :
    #^https://odysee.com/@sarah.markus:f/Temoignages_ukrainiens_liberes_dans_Donbass_Aout_2022_Partie_23:0

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans le Donbass. Aout 2022 Part 22
    #^https://youtu.be/lnzKtpi2Q64

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans le Donbass. Aout 2022 Part 21
    #^https://youtu.be/tO18e1UkmQE

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans le Donbass. Juillet 2022 / Part 20
    #^https://youtu.be/PmybCTwa3_g

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans le Donbass. Juillet 2022 / Part 19
    #^https://youtu.be/sLtfa1kV19k

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans le Donbass. Juillet 2022 / Part 18
    #^https://youtu.be/xhvi-emDTjc

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans le Donbass. Juin 2022 / Part 16
    #^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLRB-YDKbBw

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans le Donbass. Avril et Juin 2022 / Part 14
    #^https://youtu.be/JOIngtu2KDg

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans le Donbass. Avril et Juin 2022 / Part 14
    #^https://youtu.be/JOIngtu2KDg

    #Ukraine #guerre #Donbass #témoignage #libéré


    Des jeunes Ukrainiens ayant transmis des coordonnées pour une frappe meurtière sont confronté à la réalité. Juillet 2022
    #^https://odysee.com/@GrenobleDebout:2/Brilevka----323:5?r=AAWwPdJRVoB88PZYL2PwYCaM3AKRfqv7
    #Ukraine #guerre #jeunes #transmis #coordonnées #cible #frappe #meurtière #smartphone


    La centrale nucléaire de Zaporojié, " il ne faut pas avoir fait des études supérieures ni avoir des connaissances techniques pour voir d’où arrivent les missiles." 08.22
    #^https://odysee.com/@GrenobleDebout:2/4544:3?r=AAWwPdJRVoB88PZYL2PwYCaM3AKRfqv7
    #central #nucléaire #Zaporojié #missile #Ukraine #guerre


    Donbass Insider, L’Ukraine pendant l’URSS, après les deux Maïdans, et futur de la RPD Le 21.07.2022
    #^https://odysee.com/@GrenobleDebout:2/Donbass-Insider%2C-L'Ukraine-pendant-l'URSS%2C-après-les-deux-Maïdans%2C-et-futur-de-la-RPD-Le-21.07.2022:3?r=AAWwPdJRVoB88PZYL2PwYCaM3AKRfqv7
    #Donbass #Insider #Ukraine #URSS #Maïdans #RPD #Histoire


    Adrien Bocquet, témoigne sur RT des crimes de guerres Ukrainiens. Le 29.07.22
    #^https://youtu.be/LzEkc28KvPo
    #Adrien #Bocquet #témoignage #RT #crime #guerre #Ukraine


    Des soldats Ukrainien prisonnier ou non, témoignent. Juin 2022
    #^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXf0uOyN_Q&t=30s
    #Ukraine #guerre #Donbass #témoignage #libéré #soldat #prisonnier


    Graham Phillips, sanctionné par Londres pour avoir dénoncer les crimes nazi en Ukraine. 01.08.22
    #^https://youtu.be/8degAaybMs8
    #Graham #Phillips #sanction #Londres #dénoncer #crime #nazi #Ukraine


    Alina Lipp, appel les Européens à stopper les livraisons d’arme au nazi. 09.07.22
    #^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od2ugI4de94
    #Alina #Lipp #appel #Europe #Stopper #livraison #arme #nazi


    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans Marioupol. Juillet 2022 / Part 5/5
    #^https://youtu.be/vDJlcQlRbyo

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans Marioupol. Mai 2022 / Part 3
    #^https://youtu.be/1olGUdG8L2Y

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans Marioupol. Mai 2022 / Part 2
    #^https://youtu.be/zy2LrR3AKzk

    Témoignages des Ukrainiens libéré dans Marioupol. Avril 2022 / Part 1
    #^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iikLm5mV7wo

    #Ukraine #guerre #Donbass #Marioupol #Témoignage #libéré


    PR at War. Zelensky poses for Vogue as Ukraine loses towns to Russia
    #^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM72TWJHSsU
    Don’t forget to read the comments.
    #ukraine #zelensky #war #public-relations #vogue #clown #media #propaganda


    L’Ukraine de Zelensky
    https://odysee.com/@GrenobleDebout:2/L'Ukraine-de-Zelensky:b?r=AAWwPdJRVoB88PZYL2PwYCaM3AKRfqv7
    #Ukraine #Zelensky


    Donbass, 8 ans de terreur !!
    #^https://odysee.com/@GrenobleDebout:2/IMG_5496:a?r=AAWwPdJRVoB88PZYL2PwYCaM3AKRfqv7
    #Donbass #Ukraine #guerre


    Alina Lipp, sa maman obligé de fuir l’Allemagne suite à la clôture de ces comptes bancaires ainsi que des menaces. Aout 2022
    #^https://odysee.com/@GrenobleDebout:2/AlinaLipp:f
    #Alina #Lipp #maman #obligé #fuir #Allemagne #clôture #compte #bancaire #menace


    Germany Labels Journalist 'Criminal' And Seizes Her Bank Accounts For Reporting From Ukraine
    #^https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/germany-labels-journalist-criminal
    They closed her YouTube channel, blocked her PayPal account, and sentenced her to three years in prison without trial for interviewing Ukrainian citizens in the Donbas.


    Donbass Insider, Larissa décrit les pressions,la corruption du SBU et sa fuite de Kharkov. Part 3/3
    #^https://youtu.be/4NHorhR18HA
    L’interview étant très longue, nous l’avons coupée en trois parties.
    1/3 - #^https://odysee.com/@donbassinsider:b/larissa1-fr-20072022:9?r=AAWwPdJRVoB88PZYL2PwYCaM3AKRfqv7
    2/3 - #^https://odysee.com/@donbassinsider:b/larissa2-fr-20072022:4?r=AAWwPdJRVoB88PZYL2PwYCaM3AKRfqv7
    #Donbass #Insider #Larissa #témoignage #pression #corruption #SBU #Kharkov #justice #ukrainienne #fuite #Donetsk.


    Donbass Insider, Larissa nous décrit la vie à Kharkov avant et après le Maïdan. 08.22 Part 1/3
    #^https://youtu.be/q_T46PJQg3k
    #Donbass #Insider #Larissa #vie #Kharkov #avant #après #Maïdan


    Des soldats Ukrainien prisonnier ou non, témoignent. Juillet 2022 Part 2
    #^https://youtu.be/jZQJk1uGOTo
    #soldat #Ukraine #témoignage #prisonnier


    Des enfants Ukrainien endoctriné par l’idéologie nazi de Bandera !
    #^https://youtu.be/zeT2Loknhxg
    #Ukraine #guerre #endoctrinement #enfant #idéologie #nazi #Bandera


    L’Ukraine est un cheval de Troie américain. Pourquoi en avons-nous besoin dans l’UE ?

    “Le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky a multiplié les critiques et exigences à l’égard des Européens, utilisant parfois des mots forts pour témoigner de son mécontentement et obtenir satisfaction. Le président ukrainien est même allé jusqu’à attribuer à certains anciens leaders européens une part de responsabilité dans l’invasion menée par la Russie. Il n’a cependant pas exprimé de telles critiques à l’égard des États-Unis. Ce tropisme américain dont fait preuve le dirigeant ukrainien est une des raisons pour lesquelles il appartient aux Européens de ne pas confondre vitesse et précipitation quant à une potentielle intégration de l’Ukraine dans l’Union européenne. L’émotion provoquée par la guerre ne doit pas occulter les règles mises en place par l’Union Européenne, ni empêcher les responsables politiques européens de mener leur propre politique.”


    L’analyse de Pascal Boniface.
    #^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug5DxWEcvqI

    Je vous rappelle que les dirigeants de l’Allemagne et de la France étaient les garants de l’application des accords de Minsk, que l’Ukraine ignore depuis sept ans. Je tiens également à rappeler que les représentants de l’Allemagne et de la France étaient les garants de la signature de l’accord de paix entre le président ukrainien Ianoukovitch et les manifestants en février 2014.

    #ukraine #zelensky #UE


    Les accusations de viol contre les troupes russes en Ukraine étaient fausses
    #^https://lesakerfrancophone.fr/les-accusations-de-viol-contre-les-troupes-russes-en-ukraine-etaient-fausses
    #^https://diasp.org/posts/21246408


    La secrète et longue histoire de la montée des nazis en Ukraine
    " la future première dame d’Ukraine…eut des relations très serrées avec d’anciens nazis, notamment le lieutenant-colonel allemand Théodore Oberlander (1905-1998), ancien officier du bataillon Nachtigall, nazi avéré…Dans la même fibre, les collaborateurs de l’Allemagne nazie furent réhabilités (Bandera, Choukhevytch, 2007-2010), puis bientôt désignés comme « héros de l’Ukraine ». Elle s’impliqua elle-même dans le révisionnisme historique en supportant le mythe ukrainien de l’Holodomor…[son mari] N’ayant pas commencé la moindre réforme dans son pays, sauf sur le plan idéologique, abandonnant son peuple dans un pays sclérosé, malade et divisé…il devait subir une dantesque défaite électorale…La réponse américaine ne devait pas tarder en 2013-2014 : « la Révolution de la dignité, l’Euromaïdan »…"

    #^https://histoireetsociete.com/2022/05/20/la-nazification-de-lukraine-et-plus-generalement-linstallation-de-sympathisants-vient-de-loin/
    #^https://diasp.org/posts/21193311
    #Ukraine #USA #Russie #Ioutchenko #Maidan #corruption #nazis #Ukronazis #Impérialisme #actu #guerrenucléaire


    Reuter censure les civils ukrainiens.
    Vous avez peut être vu cette femme , mais Reuter à coupé la fin de l’interview.

    Ce que vous n’avez pas entendu sur nos médias.

        Journaliste : Maintenant, où préfèreriez-vous aller, en Ukraine ou en Russie ?

        Natalia Usmanova : En Russie, pas en Ukraine. En fait je ne sais même pas si je peux le dire. Franchement, on a peur. On ne sait pas ce qu’on peut dire ou pas.

        Journaliste : Vous pouvez dire tout ce que vous voulez.

        Natalia Usmanova : Franchement,** je ne veux pas aller en Ukraine**. Je ne veux pas aller en Ukraine. Notre famille a décidé à l’unanimité qu’on ne veut pas aller en Ukraine. Mais si on décide de revenir, alors ce sera seulement à Marioupol, c’est-à-dire en République populaire de Donetsk, pas en Ukraine. En tant que citoyenne de l’Ukraine, je dois dire que ce pays en tant qu’Etat est mort à mes yeux.** L’Etat et les politiciens et touts ceux qui nous ont infligé tout cela**. Ils n’ont pas résolu ce conflit de manière pacifique dès le début. Et j’ai une question :** pourquoi les gens ont-ils été retenus de force dans la ville ?** Dès que les tirs ont commencé,** le maire a été le premier à quitter la ville**. Il a évacué la ville alors que les citoyens étaient coincés. L’armée ukrainienne a tout simplement interdit aux civils de partir, même les enfants, les personnes âgées et les malades. Je veux demander pourquoi, dans quel but ils ont fait ça ?

    #^https://youtu.be/xEPi5da7vB4

    #conflit #ukraine #russie #guerre
    #^https://diasp.org/posts/21148690


    A l’ #ONU, la #Russie démontre les crimes de #guerre #ukrainiens et les falsifications des #médias occidentaux
    #^https://lecridespeuples.fr/2022/05/08/a-lonu-la-russie-demontre-les-crimes-de-guerre-ukrainiens-et-les-falsifications-des-medias-occidentaux/
    #Ukraine #UE #États-Unis
    #^https://diasp.org/posts/21148525

    “Depuis l’entrée en vigueur de la loi sur la vente des terres agricoles il y a exactement un an, trois grandes corporations transnationales états-uniennes ont acquis pratiquement un tiers des terres cultivables ukrainiennes. Selon la « Australian national review » les états-uniens posséderaient désormais 17 millions des 62 millions d’hectares de l’Ukraine (superficie totale du pays) ; 28% de l’Ukraine serait donc américaine !”

    Se faire du blé en Ukraine - … #^https://www.librairie-tropiques.fr/2022/08/se-faire-du-ble-en-ukraine.html
    #ukraine #blé #agriculture #usa
    #^https://diasp.org/posts/21607207
  5. Randall Curren's new SEP-entry on Philosophy of Education replaces the former entry by Siegel, Phillips and Callan, plato.stanford.edu/entries/edu.

    Siegel & al. fatiloquently thanked Curren for his constructive suggestions at the end of their last update 2018, plato.stanford.edu/archives/wi

    #sep #philosophy #new #education #kasvatus #koulutus #sivistys #filosofia #kasvatusfilosofia #philosophyofEducation #curren #siegel #phillips

  6. Twenty-two (!!!) Phillips 0000 and 000 threaded fasteners later...

    Some product genius who's never heard of "design for manufacturing". Or has heard of it, and has decided they want no part of it.

    #Phillips #0000 #000 #fastener #ThreadedFastener #threaded #DFM #DesignForManufacturing #DesignForManufacturability #screw

  7. 「Transnet personnel changes paying off

    Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.

    Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.

    In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.

    Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.

    Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.

    #Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.

    Encouraging signs of progress

    Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.

    “Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.

    Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:

    [...]

    The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.

    “The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.

    “If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”

    The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.

    [...]

    Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.

    moneyweb.co.za/news/south-afri

    #SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail

  8. 「Transnet personnel changes paying off

    Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.

    Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.

    In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.

    Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.

    Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.

    #Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.

    Encouraging signs of progress

    Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.

    “Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.

    Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:

    [...]

    The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.

    “The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.

    “If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”

    The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.

    [...]

    Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.

    moneyweb.co.za/news/south-afri

    #SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail

  9. 「Transnet personnel changes paying off

    Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.

    Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.

    In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.

    Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.

    Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.

    #Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.

    Encouraging signs of progress

    Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.

    “Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.

    Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:

    [...]

    The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.

    “The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.

    “If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”

    The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.

    [...]

    Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.

    moneyweb.co.za/news/south-afri

    #SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail

  10. 「Transnet personnel changes paying off

    Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.

    Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.

    In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.

    Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.

    Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.

    #Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.

    Encouraging signs of progress

    Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.

    “Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.

    Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:

    [...]

    The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.

    “The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.

    “If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”

    The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.

    [...]

    Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.

    moneyweb.co.za/news/south-afri

    #SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail

  11. 「Transnet personnel changes paying off

    Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.

    Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.

    In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.

    Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.

    Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.

    #Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.

    Encouraging signs of progress

    Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.

    “Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.

    Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:

    [...]

    The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.

    “The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.

    “If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”

    The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.

    [...]

    Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.

    moneyweb.co.za/news/south-afri

    #SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail