{"id":152067,"date":"2017-01-23T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T09:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=152067"},"modified":"2017-01-23T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T09:07:14","slug":"transnets-r8-billion-chinese-train-contract-under-fire-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/152067\/transnets-r8-billion-chinese-train-contract-under-fire-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Transnet&#8217;s R8 billion Chinese train contract under fire: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Transnet contract worth almost R8 billion for new Chinese-manufactured locomotives has come under fire after the first two trains are yet to become operational, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/exclusive-transnets-new-chinese-locomotives-fail-first-test-20170123\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to a reported alternator issue in both of the first two diesel locomotives delivered to Transnet by China&#8217;s state-owned CRRC Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0locomotives&#8217; alternators are said to &#8220;vibrate excessively&#8221;, an issue that has existed in alternators of similar Chinese-manufactured locomotives ordered by Namibia\u00a0and the main reason why the country had cancelled its deal with the Chinese supplier.<\/p>\n<p>As a result Transnet are now refusing to accept the remaining 18 locomotives due to be delivered until the issue has been addressed.<\/p>\n<p>When asked for comment on the ongoing contract, Transnet noted that the locomotives were still at &#8220;prototype stage&#8221; and that CRRC &#8220;has resolved the problem successfully&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/151330\/driving-lessons-to-be-included-in-south-african-school-curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Driving lessons to be included in South African school curriculum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Transnet contract worth almost R8 billion for new Chinese-manufactured locomotives has come under fire after the first two trains are yet to become operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-152067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152067"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152093,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152067\/revisions\/152093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}