Posted on 07 May 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Southern Sudan has announced plans to build a high-speed railway from Juba to Tororo in Uganda. Business Daily quotes presidential adviser (and director-general of the project) Kostelo Garang saying that phase one – from Tororo to Gulu – will cost an estimated $US3 billion. The second phase – to Juba – will cost an estimated [...] [...more]
Posted on 26 March 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Citadel Capital, a leading private equity firm in the Middle East and Africa with $US8.3 billion in investments in 15 industries spanning 14 countries, has announced the signing of a right-of-way agreement with the Sudanese Railway Corporation (SRC), the first step in fledgling rail operator Nile Valley Railways’ (NVR) entry into the promising Sudanese market. [...] [...more]
Posted on 22 March 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
The 446km railway linking Babanusa in central Sudan to Wåu in the south has been reopened – the first time it has operated since the civil war started. The rehabilitation was paid for by the World Bank-administered multi-donor trust fund (MDTF). Two-thirds of the cost ($US46 million) was provided by the Sudanese government and the [...] [...more]
Posted on 15 January 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
A new rail project has been launched to link the Red Sea at Port Sudan with the Atlantic Ocean at Dakar in Somalia Senegal. Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is quoted saying that the political will behind the project was confirmed during the first ministerial meeting on the scheme [...] [...more]
Posted on 27 August 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
Uganda and Tanzania are reportedly considering a possible linking of the port at Tanga to Southern Sudan. The existing Tanzanian railway from Tanga ends at Arusha (about 400km) and a new extension would be needed to Musoma (about 400km) on Lake Victoria. Freight would be conveyed from there by ferry to Port Bell (about 350km) [...] [...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 05 September 2008 by Railways Africa Editor
On 28 August, the Ugandan and Sudan governments signed a memorandum agreeing to the joint development of a 920km railway linking Gulu on Uganda’s Tororo-Pakwach branch to Sudan’s southernmost railhead at Wåw. The route proposed runs via Nimule and Juba. An earlier proposal for a 1,028km line starting at Pakwach and passing through Arua, Oraba [...] [...more]
Posted on 16 May 2008 by Railways Africa Editor
At least 15 people, most of them university students, are reported to have been killed and 28 injured after a train derailed on 4 May in western Sudan. Twenty carriages came off the rails near Al-Foula in South Kordofan while most passengers were asleep. Sudanese authorities have discounted sabotage. An al Jazeera reporter quoted a [...] [...more]
Posted on 12 September 2007 by Railways Africa Editor
On 6 September, further talks took place at State House, Kampala, between Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and engineers from Germany concerning the new standard gauge railway they propose linking Sudan’s southernmost railhead at Wåw to Uganda and Kenya. Klaus Thormahlen, managing director of Thormahlen Holdings International and Jens Flachsbarth, managing director of the Ingeno Group, [...] [...more]
Posted on 10 August 2007 by Railways Africa Editor
Sudan’s second international transport and logistics expo is to take place from 31 October to 4 November in Khartoum. The show is to have exhibiting space totalling 15,000 square metres, both outdoor and in two halls. Road, rail and air transport will be featured. The organisers are Orange Fairs & Events of Dubai, orangex@emirates.net.aeThis email [...] [...more]
Posted on 07 September 2006 by Railways Africa Editor
Arelco of Johannesburg, described as a resource and logistics company headed by Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of South African President Thabo Mbeki, is currently negotiating a rehabilitation contract with Sudan Railways, covering more than 5,000km of line. [...more]
Posted on 10 August 2006 by Railways Africa Editor
Railway Gazette International (RGI) spells it out in its August issue: “Of all the proposals that have come and gone to build new railways across Africa, the line – or lines – from southern Sudan into Uganda and Kenya promoted by German industrialist Klaus Thormalen must rank among the most far-fetched.” Well, says RGI, the [...] [...more]
