Ethiopia has signed two deals worth US$3.2 billion with Chinese and Turkish companies to construct a railway to link the land-locked Horn of Africa nation to Djibouti’s Tadjourah port in order to export potash. Reuters reports that Ethiopia,...
South Africa is exploring the possibility of the cooperation with China on developing the Johannesburg-Durban high-speed railway, the newspaper Business Day reported on Thursday. “The discussion of the technological cooperation with China on...
The Democratic Republic of Congo could be supplied passenger trains and undergo possible railway projects after talks with Russian railway monopoly RZD. An RZD delegation attended a meeting on Monday regarding the construction of railroads in high...
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) plans to buy thousands of new trains – with most manufactured locally – and is refurbishing old coaches, while revamping and modernising stations and signalling, Lucky Montana, Prasa chief executive...
Transnet Holdings SOC Ltd., South Africa’s state rail and port operator, will move its manganese export terminal to Ngqura from Port Elizabeth by 2014-15, Transnet Port Terminals Chief Executive Officer Karl Socikwa said. Transnet has completed a...
The Dar es Salaam-Isaka-Kigali/Keza-Musongati railways project get a new push after the East African Community (EAC) and African Development Bank (AfDB) signed a grant agreement for the first disbursement of $428,000 out of an anticipated...
The articulation among the air, maritime and rail and road sub-sectors will facilitate Angola’s integration in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) market. This was said Thursday in Luanda by Angolan minister of Transport, Augusto...
The main railway line from Gauteng to Zimbabwe divides the suburbs of Nirvana and Westenburg in Polokwane but, as there is currently no formal road or rail crossings for these communities, people are crossing the railway line informally. Initiated...
