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Does Fortescue's unexpected landing in Monrovia mean that the Pilbara's third force wants to join Rio and BHP on the frontiers of Guinean iron ore?
Posted 3 weeks ago by bevans
Canyon Resources Ltd (ASX:CAY) is set to benefit from the completion of an independent feasibility studying construction of a rail line from Edea to Kribi Poron in Cameroon.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority board is seeking to develop open access operations to increase traffic on its network, ‘in view of the good performance by the private operator so far’.
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Tanzania Railways Corp has awarded an international consortium a €2·5m nine-month contract to undertake feasibility and preliminary design studies for a commuter rail network in the capital Dodoma.
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The Southern Palace Joint Venture Consortium has won a 20-year concession to design, finance, build and operate a major intermodal terminal serving Gauteng province.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), is supporting investment in a large-scale project that will see expanded rail and port facilities in Guinea, driving economic growth in one of Africa’s poorest countries.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
The Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDA) and China Railway Wuju Group Corporation (CRWG) have signed a $500m agreement for the continuation of the development of a Standard Gauge Western line.
Posted last month by 8077
In 1903, British colonial administrator Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot made a bold statement: "It is not uncommon for a country to create a railway, but it is uncommon for a railway to create a country."
Posted last month by Railpage System User
The Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDA) and China Railway Wuju Group Corporation (CRWG) have signed a $500m agreement for the continuation of the development of a Standard Gauge Western line.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
Little more than a year after the opening of the Chinese-built 1 435 mm gauge railway between Mombasa and Nairobi, there are signs that East Africa’s love affair with China’s Belt & Road Initiative may be waning.
Posted 2 months ago by bevans
In March 2019, a video of Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi surfaced online. In it, he was seen sternly warning management of the Nigerian Railway Corporation(NRC) of the repercussions of ticket racketeering.
Posted 2 months ago by bevans
Ten suspects were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly removing 166 metres of metro rail lines and 83 slipper beams.
Posted 2 months ago by newsbot
Kenya will spend $210 million on linking and upgrading older tracks with its new standard-gauge railway as it abandons a plan to extend the Chinese-funded project to Uganda’s border that would have created a faster export route to the Indian Ocean for landlocked neighbors.
Posted 2 months ago by bevans
For helping to build infrastructure over nearly a decade, a Chinese rail engineer has been made a tribal chief in the capital of Nigeria.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
The Government of Ghana has signed two agreements with the Chinese Government to secure a $1bn loan to refurbish railway transportation in the country.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
A memorandum of understanding which could see iron ore from a proposed mine at Zogota in Guinea exported by rail through Liberia has been signed by mining project developer Niron Metals plc and the Liberian government.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
A rail link to Alger Houari Boumediene Airport opened along with a new terminal on April 29.
Posted 3 months ago by newsbot
Blade Nzimande has finally come to the realisation that “launching” two model trains will not solve the Passenger Rail Agency of SA’s (Prasa’s) problems, and that yet another in a long line of “turnaround” strategies has failed.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
Federal Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi has instructed Nigerian Railway Corp to start full-scale commercial passenger operations on the 1 435 mm gauge Itakpe – Ajaokuta – Warri railway, following a three month trial of free services.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
State-owned enterprise Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) has unveiled two Gibela-built X’Trapolis Mega trains in Cape Town.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority and Zambia Railways Ltd expect to haul 30 000 tonnes/month of fuel from Dar es Salaam to Lusaka as a result of Tanzania’s implementation on March 1 of the East African Community Vehicle Load Control Act, which reduces the maximum weight which can be transported by road.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
A committee of experts from African finance, planning and economic development ministries has endorsed the adoption of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to encourage private investment in railway assets across the continent.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
Alstom’s South African joint venture (JV) Gibela has seen two of its X’Trapolis Mega trains successfully revealed by the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) to the residents of the City of Cape Town.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
The development of the Mauritius light-rail system is the first phase of the Metro Express Project, which is expected to become operational by September.
Posted 3 months ago by Railpage System User
Siemens Mobility has deployed and operationalised an intelligent signalling system at three railway stations in South Africa.
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