Africa rail industry news
Latest railway industry news from Africa, including operations, infrastructure, rolling stock and policy.
South African company joins the global supply chain with TMH contract
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.
PRASA put into administration
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.
Wabtec delivers locomotives to Egypt
EGYPT: Wabtec has delivered 10 Evolution Series diesel locomotives to Egyptian National Railways and the Ministry of Transportation.
Africa’s first high speed line covers its costs
MOROCCO: Speaking at a press conference on November 20, Moroccan National Railways Director General Mohamed Rabie Khlie told media representatives that the high speed Al Boraq service launched by King Mohamed VI and French President Emmanuel Macron on November 15 2018 had carried 2·5 million passengers in the nine months ...
National Railways of Zimbabwe orders Russian wagons
ZIMBABWE: National Railways of Zimbabwe has signed an agreement for United Wagon Co to supply 100 open wagons. They are scheduled to be delivered within 12 months of NRZ finalising an export loan with the assistance of the Russian supplier.
Construction of Nigerian rolling stock factory begins
NIGERIA: The construction of a rolling stock assembly plant at Kajola in Ogun state was launched when Vice-President Yemi Osinbanjo attended a groundbreaking ceremony on November 9.
Limpopo Eco-Industrial Park intermodal terminal MoU signed
Nigerian railway construction agreement signed
Railway development opportunities highlighted at Russia-Africa Summit
Transnet launches record 375-wagon train
Ghana signs rail development MoU with RITES
CRRC Qishuyan unveils Nigerian fleet
Modernised Alstom Ubunye factory inaugurated
Kenyatta inaugurates SGR Phase 2A
Prototype Egyptian coaches unveiled by TMH
Final handover of Benguela Railway ‘renews people’s hope’
Egyptian locomotive renewal programme underway
Failure ‘not an option’ for maize shipments
Zambian regulation switches freight from road to rail
Côte d'Ivoire – Burkina Faso railway upgrade agreement
Appenzeller Bahnen to Ouagadougou
Coast-to-coast cruise train crosses Africa
Locos retrieved from Sierra Leone
Cement trains start rolling on Tanga – Moshi line