Posted 17 hours ago by Railpage System User
SOUTH Africa and Botswana have agreed to repair the railway between the two countries to improve cross-border freight links.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
An agreement in principle to provide landlocked Botswana with more efficient rail access to South African ports has been announced by Botswana Railways and Transnet Freight Rail.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Transnet National Ports Authority has issued a request for qualification for the design, funding and construction of a greenfield deepwater port and 550 km railway connection at Boegoebaai, 20 km south of the Namibian border in Northern Cape Province.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
TANZANIA and Zambia have agreed to upgrade the Tazara railway that connects the two countries as part of measures to improve bilateral ties.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
TRANSNET National Ports Authority (TNPA) has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) seeking to identify experienced developers to design, fund and build a new deep-water port at Boegoebaai in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, and a new 550km railway to connect it to mining and industrial centres.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa has reinstated suburban services on the Cape Town – Mutual – Langa; Cape Town – Pinelands – Langa; and Cape Town – Ysterplaat – Lavistown – Bellville routes after a long hiatus caused by the pandemic and vandalism.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
La Compagnie du TransGuinéen has been formally established to develop a 600 km multi-purpose and multi-user railway and port to serve the Simandou iron ore mining project.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Grands Trains du Sénégal’s ambitions to restore passenger services on sections of the Senegalese network will be boosted by support from Indian consultancy Rites.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
The Ministry of Transport has announced the award of a 30-year concession for operation of rail freight and logistics services in the Lobito Corridor to a consortium of Trafigura, Mota-Engil Engenharia e Construção Africa and rail operator Vecturis. Formal signing of the concession contract is expected in the next ...
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
THE Angolan government has selected a consortium of Belgian private operator Vecturis, Trafigura, Singapore, and Portuguese construction group Mota-Engil for a 30-year concession to operate and maintain the Lobito corridor.
Posted 3 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Tanzania Railways Corp has awarded a contract to Turkish contractor Yapı Merkezi for the construction of Stage 4 of its expanding 1 435 mm gauge network.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
TANZANIA Railway Corporation (TRC) has signed a $US 900.1m contract with Yapi Merkezi, Turkey, for the construction of the Tabora - Isaka section of the 1219km Dar es Salaam - Mwanza standard gauge railway (SGR) project.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
Transnet Freight Rail has signed a cross-border through-running agreement with Mozambique’s CFM, aimed at boosting the export of South African chrome and ferrochrome through the port of Maputo.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
Infrastructure theft and vandalism brought South Africa’s passenger railways to their knees during the pandemic lockdown of spring 2020.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
THE Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has awarded five contracts worth a total of Rs 7.5bn ($US 459.3m) for the refurbishment of rolling stock across the network.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
GHANA’s 97.6km standard gauge line between Tema and Mpakadan is expected to open in December, the country’s minister for railway development, Mr John-Peter Amewu, told reporters after inspecting the Volta Rail Bridge that forms part of the project.
Posted last month by Railpage System User
CRRC has delivered the final three of 10 four-car diesel multiple-units ordered by INCFA for use on services between Luanda and Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
VOSSLOH has announced that it has been awarded a contract worth over €40m to supply rail fastening systems for Egypt’s first high-speed line.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
CRRC’s Ziyang factory is manufacturing six diesel locomotives which railway concessionaire Sociéte d’Exploitation du Transgabonais will use to haul 10 000 tonne manganese ore trains.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
CRRC Qishuyan reports that it has delivered a second batch of two diesel locomotives to Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) for its metre gauge network.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
THE British and Kenyan governments have unveiled the final design of Nairobi’s new Central Railway Station and surrounding public area, which has been developed as part of the Nairobi Railway City redevelopment programme.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
TRANSPORT minister, Mr Fikile Mbalula, has announced that capital transfers to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) will rise to Rand 13.5bn ($US 11.6bn) in 2024-25 from Rand 12.6bn in 2022-23, as the government continues its efforts to restore the country’s heavily vandalised commuter network.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
Final designs for a new Nairobi Central station have been completed by Atkins UK for Kenya Railways and the Ministry of Transport.
Posted 2 months ago by Railpage System User
Radical structural reform, open access operations, the development of a standard gauge network of high speed lines and measures to address security problems are included in a White Paper on National Rail Policy which sets out the Department of Transport’s ambitions to make rail the backbone.
Posted 3 months ago by bevans
In December 2018, a leaked letter from the Kenyan auditor-general’s office sparked a rumour that Kenya had staked its bustling Mombasa Port as collateral for the Chinese-financed Standard Gauge Railway. Our new research shows why the collateral rumour is wrong.
About this website
Railpage version 3.10.0.0037
All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. The comments are property of their posters, all the rest is © 2003-2022 Interactive Omnimedia Pty Ltd.
You can syndicate our news using one of the RSS feeds.
Stats for nerds
Gen time: 0.2443s | RAM: 6.69kb