EconomySouth Africa tests 7.6-kilometre freight train in bid to break world record

State-owned logistics company Transnet says it has tested what it calls the world's longest freight train. Made up of 696 empty wagons and measuring 7.6 kilometres, it travelled 860 kilometres from Saldanha Bay to an inland iron ore mine.

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