At the recent ICRC PPP Summit 2025 in Abuja, Mr Rowland Ataguba, CEO of Bethlehem Rail, London and member of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) Unbundling Committee unveiled a radical plan for the Nigerian railways to make it investible for the private sector and bring about its long-term sustainability. Rail […]

This article was written by Mohammed Shehu, Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Marcelo Blumenfeld, Assistant Professor in Future Transport Systems at the University of Birmingham, UK. In the context of multimodal logistics, rail networks connect ports and industrial hubs in major cities to strategically located distribution […]

Hochtief, a German subsidiary of ACS Group, has won a €172m contract from German state company Deutsche Bahn to modernise a 42km-long section of track running along the banks of the Rhine from Wiesbaden to Lorchhausen, close to Frankfurt in western Germany. As well as refurbishing the double-track railway, Hochtief […]