Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) and Traxtion Sheltam report that they have agreed to terminate the conditional 2022 award of slots to Traxtion Sheltam between Kroonstad and East London on the Cape Corridor amid progress towards a new third-party-access framework.

The joint announcement ends an unsuccessful pilot project, which the two companies dubbed Phase 1, initiated in April 2022, through which TFR sought to sell 16 slots to private operators on its container and Cape corridors through a competitive process as part of an initial effort to open its network to third-party operators.