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The Department of Transport plans to reintroduce premier class luxury rail transport to the Eastern Cape.
In a presentation to the National Assembly’s Tourism Committee, the Department says that the planned new services include the introduction of premier class travel between Gauteng and the Eastern Cape.
In addition, the department is planning to re-introduce a service on the Western Cape-Eastern Cape route, running an economy class train from Cape Town to East London via Queenstown.
With regard to the future of maritime travel, the Department says that it plans to facilitate coastal shipping activities.
Transnet CEO Brian Molefe has mooted the possibility of a coastal service linking Port Elizabeth and East London and possibly Durban, and Cape Town.
(Source: Metro Minute - to subscribe mail metminutes@iafrica.com)
