Posted on 03 May 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
President of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) Yuan Li has expressed interest in undertaking the proposed 1,400km regional railway project to connect Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. He is quoted saying: “We were also the contractors for the Tanzania-Zambia railway in 1960 and we have railway projects in Nigeria, Algeria and Libya and the [...] [...more]
Posted on 15 January 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Ministers of Infrastructure from Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda agreed at a meeting in the first week of December to establish a “roadmap” of legal and regulatory framework to govern the proposed railway construction project linking the three countries. A feasibility study carried out by an American firm concluded that the proposed new 1,700km standard-gauge line [...] [...more]
Posted on 24 December 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
Ministers of Infrastructure from Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda agreed at a meeting in the first week of December to establish a “roadmap” of legal and regulatory framework to govern the proposed railway construction project linking the three countries. A feasibility study carried out by an American firm concluded that the 1,700km line is both economically [...] [...more]
Posted on 30 November 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
The second phase of the Dar es Salaam-Isaka-Kigali/Keza-Musongati Railway project study will cover the existing 970km Dar es Salaam-Isaka railway link and its extensions. The project is part of the East African Community (EAC) priority investment programme which attaches great importance to multinational poverty reduction projects, through regional infrastructure development and cooperation among member countries. [...] [...more]
Posted on 14 September 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
Rwanda infrastructure minister Linda Bihire has dispelled recent reports suggesting that she sees the current Tanzanian railway concession as a possible obstacle to plans for a new line from Dar-es-Salaam to Rwanda and Burundi. In 2007, Rail India Technical and Economic Services Ltd (Rites) was granted a 25-year concession by the government of Tanzania to [...] [...more]
Posted on 14 September 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
Ministers of Infrastructure from Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania are scheduled to meet in Kigali late in September to approve the “final study” currently being carried out on the proposed 691km new standard-gauge railway from Dar-es-Salaam to Kigali and Bujumbura. According to Rwandan minister of infrastructure Linda Bihire, the projected costs are to be discussed at [...] [...more]
Posted on 03 August 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
Rwanda Infrastructure minister Linda Bihire has told Tanzania that its railway concession agreement with Rail India Technical and Economic Services Ltd (Rites) will have to be “revised”, suggesting that it stands in the way of the proposed new standard gauge line from Dar-es-Salaam via Isaka to Rwanda and Burundi. According to East African Business Week [...] [...more]
Posted on 23 April 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
The first Extraordinary meeting of the Sectoral Council on Transport Communications and Meteorology was held from 15-17 April 2009 in Arusha, Tanzania. The meeting, which deliberated mainly on the draft East African Railways Master Plan, was chaired by chairperson of the sectoral council and minister for infrastructure of the Republic of Rwanda Linda Bihire. The [...] [...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 02 April 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
The new proposed railway is to run from Isaka on Tanzania’s Mwanza branch via Rusumo on the border with Rwanda “to the Bugesera District from where it will turn to Kigali at Nyandungu which is to be the main stage for loading and assembling wagons.” A branch will run to Bujumbura in Burundi. “The three [...] [...more]
Posted on 26 March 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
According to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who chairs the East African Heads of State Summit, the railway master plan for East Africa has been finalised. Partner states are currently reviewing its final draft report. The poor state of transport infrastructure in the region undermines trade and investment competitiveness, he says, and railway rehabilitation in the [...] [...more]
Posted on 19 March 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
Round-table discussions on the Tanzania-Rwanda-Burundi railway project started on 16 March in Tunis with deliberations split into three sessions. The first session was devoted to communication and the exchange of views. Discussions during the session focused on the presentation of financial reports, financing options and achievements. The second session was marked by a question-and-answer session, [...] [...more]
