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 […]
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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 development of railway will be closely integrated with 5G, and will continue to play a great role in the construction of Guangzhou and even the country…..”
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 Philippine Department of Transportation (DOTr) is reconsidering Chinese loans for three railway projects after Beijing failed to act on funding requests by the Duterte administration, the Philippine News Agency reports. The three schemes affected are the Subic–Clark Railway, the South Long-Haul Project and the Mindanao Railway Project. Cesar Chavez, the DOTr’s undersecretary for railways, said negotiations […]
China is again increasing infrastructure spending to bolster economic growth amid the continuing drag of Covid-19 and a weakening global economy, with observers noting a corresponding rise in debt. The official Xinhua news agency notes that capital spending on infrastructure rose almost 7% during the first five months of 2022 compared with […]
“The G7 wants to make the world a better place with better infrastructure. Today, we launch our joint work on this with the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment,” Scholz said in a press statement. [Sean Gallup/EPA]