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Tunis – La Goulette – La Marsa suburban railway

Tunis suburban railway modernisation backed by EBRD

2020-01-22T07:00:00+00:00

TUNISA: The acquisition of 18 light rail vehicles to replace ageing rolling stock on the 18 km Tunis – La Goulette – La Marsa 750 V DC overhead electric suburban railway is to be financed using a €45m loan agreed last month by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development ...

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TAZARA urged to seek freight traffic ‘aggressively’

2020-01-21T06:00:00+00:00

AFRICA: The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority board chaired by Tanzania and Zambia’s permanent secretaries responsible for transport has directed the railway’s management to ‘aggressively seek additional freight traffic in order to capture more business’.

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TAZARA and Copperbelt University form skills development partnership

2020-01-15T06:02:00+00:00

ZAMBIA: Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority and Copperbelt University have signed an agreement establishing a joint educational campus in Mpika which the international railway operator said would ‘create unheralded value and opportunities for both the university and the railway industry’.

ONCF has taken delivery of the first of 30 Alstom Prima M4 locomotives

First of 30 Prima M4 locomotives delivered to ONCF

2020-01-07T10:25:00+00:00

MOROCCO: National railway ONCF has taken delivery of the first of 30 Alstom Prima M4 locomotives which are being supplied under a €130m contract announced in February 2018.

TMH is to supply ENR with a total of 1 300 coaches

South African company joins the global supply chain with TMH contract

2019-12-11T11:04:00+00:00

EGYPT: The TMH International subsidiary of Russian rolling stock manufacturing group Transmashholding has awarded South African company SME Exports a contract to supply 800 heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems for coaches ordered by Egyptian National Railways.

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PRASA put into administration

2019-12-10T09:43:00+00:00

SOUTH AFRICA: The interim board of Passenger Rail Authority of South Africa has been dismissed, and the troubled organisation has been put into administration Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula announced on December 9.

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