The first electric light rail transportation, also known as the Tram System, is to be launched in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. The project, which forms part of the government’s effort to ease traffic congestion, particularly in urban centres, will be fully financed by the Czech Government at a total […]
Month: September 2022
South Africa is facing challenges regarding its rolling stock, owing to rail networks being vandalised during Covid-19 lockdowns, and this will be costly to repair, says consultant and supplier of new and used locomotives African Railway Systems, COO Dylan Knott. The shortage of locomotives and rolling stock also prevents the […]
The Nigerian Minister of Transportation, Alhaji Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, has disclosed that work on Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Eastern rail line has been suspended due to insecurity and vandalism of railway properties along the corridor. Sambo who was speaking during the Ministerial inspection tour of the project, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, […]
The media in Boston has reported that on 31 August the Board of Directors of TheMassachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) agreed to designate CAF USA as thesuccessful bidder for the project to supply 102 LRVs to run on the Green Line in the City ofBoston for $811 million. The base […]
“We are completely transforming Indian Railways. Today, railway stations in the country are also being developed like airports”-PM Modi
The T-MEC corridor will bypass Texas and go through New Mexico instead, according to a top Mexican official. Ariana Garcia Texas is losing out on a major trade railway worth billions of dollars in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s recently rescinded enhanced safety inspections for commercial trucks entering the state through […]
Africa is not copying Chinese political model despite increasing closeness to Beijing. Yet, West is slow, reluctant to embrace Africa’s urgent needs for hard infrastructure for quick exit from under-development…
“This paper draws on lessons from the railways of the nineteenth century to help us answer questions about the prospects of the African railway renaissance today.”…..