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• 24/09/2022 08:45

TAZARA: Temporary suspension of passenger train services in Zambia

The Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) has announced the temporary suspension of passenger train services in Zambia due to a goods train accident in the Nak… read more

• Rail
• 16/09/2022 20:26

TAZARA resumes cross-border passenger train operations between Tanzania and Zambia!

The Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) has announced that the Chambeshi Railway Bridge on the Chambeshi River in … read more

• Rail
• 11/09/2022 22:08

Vandals drive Uganda’s Transport Ministry to embrace concrete railway sleepers

The committee chaired by Hon. Joseph Ssewungu, is investigating the status of the implementation of government assurance on rail works in the country. The Ministry of Works and Transport has resorted to the use of concrete sleepers over steel ones in the restoration of the railway to curb vandalism.

Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala, the Minister… read more

• Rail
• 09/09/2022 19:15

Etihad Rail Welcomes The First Batches Of Its New State-Of-The-Art Fleet Of Trains

Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of the UAE National Rail Network, has achieved a new milestone in the development of the National Rail Network, with the arrival of the first batches of the company’s new and advanced rolling stock fleet. The locomotives and wagons, which reached the UAE via Zayed and Al Musaffah Ports, will operate… read more

• Rail
• 06/09/2022 10:23

Ghana's First Electric Light Rail Transportation system

Kumasi is set to become the first city in Ghana to have an Electric Light Rail Transportation (Tram System) as part of the Ghana government's effort to ease traffic congestion in the capital city. Also known as the Tram System, it is one of the sophisticated systems of transport found mostly in Europe.

This type of tra… read more

• Rail
• 02/09/2022 20:37

World Bank supports urban transport in the Maputo Metropolitan area

The World Bank has approved a $250 million grant from the International Development Association (*IDA) to improve mobility and accessibility in the Maputo Metropolitan Area (MMA).

The funds will be utilized to build the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system and associated facilities in the Maputo Metropolitan Are… read more

• Rail
• 02/09/2022 20:34

Blue Train about to resume ops

Transnet SOC Ltd (“Transnet”) has completed investigations into incidents which led to the suspension of the Blue Train service in the latter part of the 2021/22 financial year.

This paves the way for services to resume imminently.

In February this year, management took a decision to temporarily suspend Blue Train operations as a pre… read more

• Rail
• 28/08/2022 20:53

Rehabilitation of Railway Line from Victoria Falls to Chingola

The project to rehabilitate approximately 1029 km of railway track, from the border with Zimbabwe in the south (Livingstone) to the border with DCR (Dem. Rep. of Congo) (Chingola) in the north, is being implemented in two phases. The project involves the rehabilitation of the track superstructure, as well as, the installations of t… read more

• Rail
• 22/08/2022 05:20

TransNamib Industrial Action

Following the commencement of industrial action in the form of a strike by the bargaining unit of TransNamib, led by NATAU, the company would like to stress that as a responsible corporate citizen, TransNamib respects the rights of workers to strike, and no form of intimidation has taken place against striking and nonstriking workers.

• Rail
• 20/08/2022 08:43

TAZARA: Resumption of cross-border passenger train operations between Tanzania and Zambia has been p

The Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) has to postpone the resumption of cross-border passenger train operations between Tanzania and … read more