By Mark Kidamba Right from the onset, Uganda and East Africa have had a rocky relationship with rail lines on account of issues stretching from the terrain, jiggers; blood-thirsty lions, and the cost at which these rail lines were put in the ground. These snags have traversed generations and showed […]
Month: May 2023
Kenya has set sights on a Ksh2.1 trillion ($15.3 billion) plan to extend the standard gauge railway (SGR) to Kisumu, Malaba and Isiolo by the end of June 2027, a government document seen by the Business Daily shows. According to the plan, the State Department of Transport will build another […]
●Uganda is banking on the railway to boost speed and lower the cost of transporting exports. ●China withheld funding for the final segment of the SGR to the Uganda border.Kenya last bought its 1,620 locomotives and wagons from China in 2018. Kenya and Uganda will seek an alternative financier for […]
Japanese railway operators have begun to make full-fledged efforts to introduce self-driving trains, Japan Times has reported. Railway firms previously avoided implementing such technologies on existing train lines due to safety risks, but they are now facing the need to streamline operations as Japan’s falling population gradually shrinks the pool […]
The African Railway Roundtable, a rail advocacy group for Africa, has called on the incoming President of Nigeria, Senator Bola Tinubu to adopt a private sector focussed and best practices model for the Nigerian Railway sector under his Presidency. In a statement issued on Monday Morning and signed by the […]
China has agreed to pass on some of its know-how to Thailand so that the Southeast Asian nation can develop its own high-speed railway network, according to Chinese engineers involved in the negotiations. “As cooperation on the China-Thailand High-Speed Railway project deepens, Thailand’s desire to design and construct high-speed railways […]
Revival of rail lines is one of the several promises of President Muhammadu Buhari pre-2015 general elections. And across the regions have been some flashes of improvement on rail tracks that had been abandoned for decades. Most symbolic has been the completion and operation of the 168-kilometre Abuja-Kaduna rail line, […]
By Johnson Mwawasi Kilangi Solar panels, sun energy and electricity generation in the desert, Africa. ingehogenbijl/Shutterstock.comFrom political platforms in Kenya in East Africa to Nigeria in West Africa, leaders jostling to form the next governments are promising to drive more infrastructure investment through public-private partnerships (PPPs). For over a decade […]
Webuild and joint-venture partner Shibh Al Jazira Contracting Company (Sajco) have signed a €1.4bn contract to design and build 57km of a high-speed railway serving the futuristic commercial and residential region of Neom on Saudi Arabia’s northern Red Sea coast. The joint venture will build most of the “Connector”, a […]
Heads of the railways of Iran and Iraq have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on taking executive measures for completing the Shalamcheh-Basra railway, the portal of Iran’s Transport and Urban Development Ministry reported on Sunday. The MOU was signed at the place of the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, on […]