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Logistics company Transnet will eventually manufacture its own trains and locomotives, CEO Brian Molefe said in Johannesburg.

“Transnet will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to be an equipment manufacturer,” he said.

“We will build our own locomotives and trains.”

He was speaking at a business breakfast hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa.

Transnet had ordered 143 locomotives from General Electric’s local subsidiary. The first 10 of these had been wholly manufactured in the United States.

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