East Africa’s cross-border electric railway line plans are upping the competition for cargo business in the region and helping the region tap a US$3 trillion single market opportunity Dar ea Salaam, Tanzania | BIRD AGENCY | Tanzania and Burundi have floated a tender for designing and constructing an electrified railway …
Read More »Uganda declined China request to repay SGR loan with oil cash
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ugandan government rejected a China Exim Bank proposal to use revenue from Oil to pay for a loan to build the planned Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). This is according to information shared by Works and Transport Minister Gen Edward Katumba Wamala in a meeting …
Read More »Congo’s bread basket struggles to recover from conflict
Mindouli, Congo | AFP | “The trains are running again. We have peace,” says Didier, the station master at Mindouli, in the Republic of Congo’s southern region of Pool. But a glance at the weeds growing on the line connecting the capital Brazzaville and the port city of Pointe-Noire shows that …
Read More »Rwanda goes for electric trains to Dar
Kampala, Uganda | INDEPENDENT TEAM & AGENCIES | Rwanda and Tanzania have agreed to review the design of Isaka-Kigali standard gauge railway. They have dropped the proposed use of diesel engines in favour of electric locomotives. The line is proposed to link the Tanzanian port of Dar-es-Salaam and Kigali; a stretch of …
Read More »Tanzania to buy 19 electric trains
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tanzania has floated a multimillion dollar tender for 19 electric trains to be used on the standard gauge railway (SGR) which is under construction, according to the regional newspaper, The EastAfrican. State-run railway firm Reli Assets Holding Company (Rahco) is seeking the supply of …
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