{"id":12853,"date":"2014-02-04T07:41:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T07:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12853"},"modified":"2014-02-04T07:41:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T07:41:14","slug":"power-failure-in-richards-bay-causes-interruption-in-coal-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12853","title":{"rendered":"Power failure in Richards Bay causes interruption in coal exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12854\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/richards-bay-port-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12854\" alt=\"Richards Bay Coal Terminal\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/richards-bay-port-3-300x164.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/richards-bay-port-3-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/richards-bay-port-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richards Bay Coal Terminal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a joint statement yesterday, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) and the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) announced that a power failure had caused an interruption in South Africa&#8217;s coal exports from the harbour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The RBCT came to a complete halt on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The failure was caused when uMhlatuze Municipality experienced faults on both cables that feed the Hydra Substation which in turn feeds RBCT,&#8221; said the statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Although the export coal service has been suspended, the general freight business still continues unhindered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The TFR, RBCT, Eskom and the municipality were hard at work effecting repairs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The system will probably be restarted in about 3 days and should be up to full capacity by the week ending on 9 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a joint statement yesterday, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) and the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) announced that a power failure had caused an interruption in South Africa&#8217;s coal exports from the harbour. The RBCT came to a complete halt on Friday. &#8220;The failure was caused when uMhlatuze Municipality experienced faults on both cables that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12853\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Power failure in Richards Bay causes interruption in coal exports&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/richards-bay-port-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12855,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions\/12855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}