Posted on 24 May 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
A loan of more than $US100 million from China is to help Ethiopia build railways linking the capital, Addis Abeba, to various regions of the country. Hoever, observers point out, some of the many construction projects undertaken by China in Africa have run into problems. A $9 billion deal signed between Beijing and Kinshasa in [...] [...more]
Posted on 17 May 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
China is to lend Ethiopia “billions of dollars” to fund various government projects, including railway construction. The projects include light rail in Addis Abeba and a new Ethio-Djibouti rail line. The 30km urban light rail network is to have two lines, one from Ayat through Tor Hayloch (Army Hospital) to Jimma Ber, and the other [...] [...more]
Posted on 14 April 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Recently Consta Joint Venture (JV), the Italian firm contracted to undertake part reconstruction of CFDE (Chemin de fer Djibouti-Ethopien), the Ethio-Djibouti Railway, was ordered to suspend activity “because of the poor standard of the work reported by the project consultant.” Work may resume before the end of April, Addis Fortune (published in Addis Abeba) reports, [...] [...more]
Posted on 01 February 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed by four foreign companies and the Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) for undertaking a study on the planned construction of a new railway to the border with Djibouti at a projected cost of $US1.5 billion. The companies, China Communication Construction Company (CCCC), China Railway Group, Overseas Investment Alliance [...] [...more]
Posted on 25 January 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
The Ethiopian ministry of transport and communications is planning a light rail network in the capital city, Addis Abeba. It was announced on 1 January that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between the ministry and a foreign company which is to lay rails in selected streets of the metropolis. No further details [...] [...more]
Posted on 25 September 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
In 2007, the Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) was formed as a subsidiary of the country’s ministry of transport & communications, with a paid-up capital of $US750 million. Its mandate is to build a national railway as well as an urban light rail network in the capital, Addis Abeba. The main task of the national system [...] [...more]
Posted on 25 September 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
The urgency of work involved in the current upgrading of the 781km metre-gauge Chemin de fer Djibouti-Ethiopien (CDE – the Djibouti-Ethiopian Railway). has been emphasised by a “string of derailments” between Dire Dawa and Djibouti, where trains carry fruit and vegetables, coffee and livestock for export and return with construction materials. At the end of [...] [...more]
Posted on 26 June 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
According to the BBC’s Elizabeth Blunt, “a major project is under way to restore Ethiopia’s 100-year-old imperial railway, and there are plans to build a new national network.” The existing 784km line to Djibouti from Addis Abeba was built by the French in the early days of the twentieth century. “French influences are everywhere, from [...] [...more]
Posted on 28 May 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
Overseas Infrastructure Alliance Private Limited (OIA) of India is interested in Ethiopia’s 5,000km proposed national railway network – including the link to neighbouring Djibouti in the Horn of Africa – which is planned for construction within seven years. The Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) has been tasked with building the envisaged network to connect most parts [...] [...more]
Posted on 09 April 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
On 2 April, as part of part of Kenya’s official economic blueprint Vision 2030, the government invited bids – due by 18 May – for the carrying out of a feasibility study into a proposed new transport corridor, including a 1,435mm gauge railway running from a planned new port at Lamu to Addis Abeba in [...] [...more]
Posted on 26 March 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
Among the objectives of a new railway being planned in Ethiopia, are assistance to farmers keen to supply their produce to local and cross-border markets and the enhancement of domestic marketing by expanding access to commodities produced in remote areas. Feasible routes for the proposed line are being identified by consultants working with officials from [...] [...more]
Posted on 17 January 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
A Kuwaiti company that has been negotiating with the transport ministries of Djibouti and Ethiopia over a concession to operate the 781km Ethio-Djibouti Railway CFDE (Chemin de fer Djibouti-Ethopien) has failed to meet agreed deadlines. The Al-Ghanim and Sons Group was supposed to submit a feasibility study and begin taking over administration by 31 December [...] [...more]
