Turkey is silently making her mark on African railway market.Unlike the Chinese and the Russians,the Turks are somehow strategic about the market penetration.First,it was Tanzania,then Senegal and now Ethiopia. The Ankara team seems to offer high qualitative rail works at moderate cost,factors that are granting it fresh access to infrastructure […]
Bamako: The sign above the station entrance declares that this is the Dakar-Niger Railway: the start of a trek from the arid Sahel to the tropical Atlantic, 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) away. But for those hoping to buy a ticket for a legendary journey, disappointment awaits. Not a single […]
South African Transport Minister ,Mbalula Fikile has attributed incessant burning of trains in the Cape area as the handiwork of corrupt forces seeking to blackmail rail authority in the country. In a series of tweets after a visit to the site of the arson,the Minister said “some of these acts […]
The 2019 Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week opened in Cairo, Egypt on Monday with a clarion call from key players in the infrastructure sector for enhanced partnerships between the public and private sectors to develop the continent’s infrastructure to spur industrial growth and employment creation. They agreed […]
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed visuals for a multimodal Ülemiste terminal in Tallinn, Estonia, which will form part of the Rail Baltica high-speed rail network,detailed report by Dezeen.com has disclosed. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in collaboration with local studio Esplan, the Ülemiste terminal will be the starting point for […]