The African Development Bank (AfDB) said private sector investment in Africa’s infrastructure in 2020 was 19 billion dollars, the highest since 2016. Mr Solomon Quaynor, AfDB Vice President for the Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialisation said this at a webinar organised by the bank and the Japan International Cooperation Agency […]
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Egypt has signed a $656 million deal with Hyundai Rotem to upgrade Cairo’s Metro and help localise the industry, the Egyptian Ministry of Transportation said on Wednesday. The South Korean company will manufacture and supply 320 cars and 40 trains for the city’s second and third metro lines in the agreement signed […]
““I traveled several times on the train bound for Lobito, Benguela, and I could see that the train was working well”- President João Lourenço of Angola
ABU DHABI, (WAM) — Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of the UAE National Rail Network, has achieved a new milestone in the development of the National Rail Network, with the arrival of first batches of the company’s new and advanced rolling stock fleet. The locomotives and wagons, which reached […]
AP: lmost 2,000 workers at the U.K.’s biggest container port will launch an eight-day strike Sunday over a pay dispute, the latest industrial action to hit a growing number of sectors of the U.K. economy. Workers including crane drivers and machine operators will walk off their jobs at Felixstowe port […]
The Dakar-Bamako line was conceived in the late 19th century in the heyday of France’s colonial era
Abidjan, August 19, 2022 – The operation to clear the rights-of-way impacted by the Abidjan metro project, after an interruption of a few months, resumed on Thursday August 18, 2022 in the municipalities of Adjamé and Treichville on a total of 7 municipalities. Under the supervision of officials from the […]
Nation’s First High-Speed Rail Project Now Environmentally Cleared Between San Francisco and Northern Los Angeles County.
he first train of the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) arrives at Nairobi Terminus in Nairobi, Kenya, May 31, 2017. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng) The project has gained trust and support from the Kenyan government and people and injected vitality into the country’s socio-economic development, since AfriStar has always been committed to […]
The talk between the two countries follows the increasing emphasis of African nations on regional rail connectivity within the context of African Continental Free Trade Area and the African Union continental railway agenda.