Sugar producer Tongaat Hulett is partnering with the South African Farmers Development Association, and the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development to establish a sugar cane rail transport system, in KwaZulu-Natal, between Makhathini cane growers in northern Zululand and Tongaat Hulett’s Felixton Sugar Mill near Empangeni. Tongaat Hulett has assisted in drafting the business plan to raise about R30-million in funding for the development of a road-truck-to-rail-wagon spiller facility in the Mkuze area, about 50 km away from the Makhathini flats, explains Tongaat Hulett sugar operations MD Simon Harvey.