The joint infrastructure project is expected to connect Gulf and Arab countries via a network of railways that would also be connected to India via shipping lanes from ports in the region Photograph:(Others) The proposal for the infrastructure could be discussed on Sunday as the national security advisers of the countries meet […]
Month: May 2023
On 22 February 2023, the Federal Council issued its message on the revision of the Railways Act (RTA) with a view to implementing the technical pillar of the EU’s 4th railway package (4th FP (VT)). We consider the draft revision to be a success, as it makes possible the next […]
The 273 km, $2.2bn railway line, running east from Kampala, Uganda, to Malaba, just across the border in Kenya, should have been built by now. In 2015, a Chinese state-owned firm, the China Harbour Engineering Company, won the contract to build the crucial transport link. But after eight years with no […]
The railways’ ambitious New Delhi station redevelopment project has been derailed once again with the bidding process getting cancelled. This is the third time when the bidding for this project has been cancelled. The railways has also decided to discharge the bidding process for the Ahmedabad station redevelopment project. The […]
1. My attention and the entire Board’s have been drawn to a publication in some National dailies of the purported signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between a US firm, “Atlanta Global Resources Inc.” and the NDDC, whose Board I chair, for the “construction of a mega rail project […]