State-owned Transnet’s newly appointed CE Portia Derby has pledged to partner with the mining industry in an open and transparent way in a bid to boost the utility and ultimately help grow the economy. “We want to be a cool, easy company to deal with. We don’t want to make it difficult for you to talk to us. We want to partner closely with you and are going to be listening to you a lot more than we were before,” she told delegates to the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town.