Victor Kaluila Muzembe, Director of Planning for the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer du Congo (SNCC) .Overview of SNCC’s 3,641 km rail network and its strategic importance – Insights into the open access agreements with private operators – The impact of new investments on the DRC’s rail infrastructure – … Read the rest
Category Archives: African High Speed Railway
UNITY OF PURPOSE for African Economic Development
UNITY OF PURPOSE for African Economic Development: the African Integrated High Speed Railway Network
by PD Lawton, 24 March 2024
The concept of a modernized, standardized and integrated continental railway was devised by the African Union in 2013 as part of Agenda 2063 `The Africa We Want`. The key principle … Read the rest
Tanzania: Railways revolution becomes a reality after SGR test run
re posted from DAILY NEWS
Railways revolution becomes a reality after SGR test run
by Hilda Mhagama 19 March 2024
TANZANIA: AS Tanzania commemorates three years since President Samia Suluhu Hassan assumed office, significant progress has been made in the implementation of crucial infrastructure projects, notably the Standard Gauge Railway
Made in Africa: Historic Moment for Economic Integration
Made in Africa:
Historic Moment for Economic Integration
by PD Lawton 4 February 2024
“South African automotive companies source leather car seats from a factory in Lesotho employing close to a thousand workers and wiring harnesses from Botswana at two plants employing several thousand workers. They source copper wire from … Read the rest
Transforming Railways In Tanzania: An Exclusive Interview With TRC’s Director General, Masanja Kadogosa
Progress Report of Tanzanian section of Central Corridor of African Integrated High Speed Railway Network (AIHSRN : DAR ES SALAAM – BURUNDI – RWANDA -EASTERN DRC
Railways Africa Magazine in conversation with Masanja K. Kadogosa, the Director General of Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC)
Image: courtesy of tanzaniainvest.com
Central Corridor Tanzania
… Read the restUnveiling Africa’s Railway Future: Exclusive Interview with Ibrah Wahabou, AUDA-NEPAD
Sadly, the AU are not addressing the economic value of High Speed (180km/hr +). However AUDA-NEPAD have now come up with very interesting ideas for how railways should be seen in context with and as a catalyst for economic development and how to increase funding for infrastructure.
A New Paradigm
… Read the restAdvancing Africa’s Rail Network: The Africa Integrated High Speed Railway Network Workshop
Recent technical workshop held in Addis,12-14th December 2023, to discuss success of flagship projects, challenges and needs such as railway technical skills training in universities.Eric Ntagengerwa from the African Union talked to Philippa Dean
Advancing Africa’s Rail Network: The Africa Integrated High Speed Railway Network Workshop
Tanzania: Progress Video Standard Gauge Railway Line From Morogoro to Makutupora
Yapi Merkezi is the Turkish construction company that is constructing a major part of the HIGH SPEED Standard Gauge Railway connecting Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – Burundi, Rwanda and eastern DRC. This is the CENTRAL CORRIDOR of the AFRICAN INTEGRATED HIGHSPEED RAILWAY NETWORK (AIHSRN) It will eventually traverse DRC and … Read the rest
Investing in Cameroon’s Railways: An Exclusive Interview with Camrail’s Director of Transport
great news from Cameroon and great news for the
and Douala sections of the integrated continental network!Source: Railways Africa Magazine
Investing in Cameroon’s Railways: An Exclusive Interview with Camrail’s Director of Transport
16 November 2023
In this ‘Coffee with the Editor’, filmed during the International Railway Safety Council’s … Read the rest
Lobito Atlantic Railway concession launched
re posted from RAILWAY GAZETTE INTERNATIONAL
Image: Angola`s railway network, courtesy: Wikipedia
Highlighting the importance of the railway for Angola, President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço said ‘the Lobito Corridor, which links Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and whose concession we have given today … will certainly boost … Read the rest