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Hi,
Rail Expansion & Technology Congress Africa 2015 shares a free report about Africa Rail Industry’s major projects, proposed investment, current status and plan by analyzing North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, East Africa and Central Africa.
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Below information is for you reference.
| Countries |
Major Project |
Proposed
Investment |
Milestone |
| North Africa |
| Morocco |
♦ Tangier-Casablanca High-Speed Rail Line |
200million |
♦ Plan to refurbish the railways and expand it by investing $20 billion (Dh73.4 billion) up to 2035, which includes the work underway to modernize the controls and telecommunications on the network |
| Southern Africa |
| South Africa |
♦ Train renewal program |
4.3billion |
♦ In 2012, launched the Market Development Strategy, a seven-year $33.82bn investment scheme to rejuvenate the country's ports, rail and pipelines infrastructure. A big portion of this investment is dedicated to rail.
♦ In March 2014, Transnet announced a $4.26bn contract with four manufacturers to build a 1,064-strong locomotive suite.
♦ Over the next four years, South Africa will shift its freight from road to rail
♦ National Transport Master Plan aims to invest $71.2bn in infrastructure projects until 2050, with 43% of this expected to be dedicated to the rail segment.
♦ By 2019, a total of $631m will be spent specifically on skills development and staff training as part of the market strategy. |
| West Africa |
| Nigeria |
♦ high speed rail project |
13 billion |
♦ China Railway Construction, awarded a $3.5 billion contract to build a 334km railway in the southwestern state of Ogun. The rolling stock, tracks and operating technology for the project to link cities in the area will be based on Chinese standards.
♦ Privatization bill for Nigerian railways approved: The bill allows the private sector to build, operate and maintain the 3557km of 1067mm-gauge infrastructure which is currently the guise of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) (2015.2) |
| East Africa |
| Uganda |
♦ Standards Gauge railways expansion & upgrade |
13.8billion |
♦ China Set for $3.2 Billion Uganda Rail Plan, signed EPC contract for the Eastern and Northern Standard Gauge Railway Network project (2015.4). |
| Central Africa |
| Namibia |
♦ Namibia and Botswana TKR High Speed |
10billion |
♦ A study is currently being conducted to determine the rail width (gauge) as well as the exact route the 1450km Trans Kalahari railway (TKR) has to follow to link south-eastern Botswana’s vast Mmababula coal fields to Walvis Bay for bulk export. (2015.3) |
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