No one was injured and no hazardous material spilled when 10 Canadian National Railway cars derailed in northern Minnesota, officials there said. The derailment happened just before 8:30 p.m. Monday in a rural, unpopulated area about 6 miles (10 kilometers) north of Cook, the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office said […]
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Plans to carpet Switzerland’s railway tracks with solar panels to produce a supply of alternative energy have been derailed by the Swiss transport ministry. Ministry officials told startup Sun-Ways that the project would be too difficult to maintain and could risk train delays. Sun-Ways had proposed a CHF400,000 ($458,000) plan […]
Yesterday at the plenary session of the 10th Senate, Distinguished Senator Ajagunla Olubiyi Fadeyi, representing the good people of Osun State Central Senatorial District drew the attention of the Senate President, His Excellency, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio CON and distinguished senators of the hollow chamber to a matter of national […]
Mota-Engil has evacuated equipment worth $200m for the construction of $2billion Kano-Maradi Rail line from the Port and Cargo Terminals in Lagos. The construction equipment which berthed in Lagos during the week was being added to Mota-Engil’s already impressive inventory. Some of the equipment are: Wheel loaders; backhoe Loaders; Crawler […]
The Board and Management of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, have recommended two additional train trips on the Abuja-Kaduna train service. The NRC management in a statement on Saturday explained that the train service will resume today, Sunday, 4th June 2023. The NRC assured its passengers of their safety with […]
In high demand for general public travel needs, the train continues to attract significant traffic in Morocco. However, the rail network does not cover the whole country, which motivates the extension projects for which the executive is looking for donors. In Morocco, 12.4 million people traveled by train during the […]
●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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lauretta Onochie, the chairperson of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board, has distanced herself from a $15billion memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the management of the commission and a United States-based firm, Atlanta Global Resources Inc. The multi-billion deal which was purportedly signed on Tuesday, is meant for the […]