Botswana Coal Companies See Output Without New Rail Line
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Coal explorers in Botswana are pressing ahead with plans to start production and use existing rail capacity to ports in South Africa and Mozambique instead of waiting for a line being built to Namibia, the mines lobby said.
“You cannot sit down and wait for the Trans-Kalahari Railway; that would be a disaster,” Botswana Chamber of Mines Chief Executive Officer Charles Siwawa said in a Jan. 21 interview in Gaborone, the capital. “The thing to do is to move on the available capacity and all of them are trying.”