South Africa: Investment in transport sector strengthens
Amid all the doom and gloom surrounding the economic and political situation in South Africa, there have been a number of recent successes in domestic engineering.…
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Tazara railway needs $200m upgrade
The scale of the investment required to rehabilitate the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (Tazara) has become clear.…
Uganda: Chinese firm secures $2.3bn contract to build MoKaKi railway section
China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has signed a contract to build the section of the MoKaKi railway between the Kenyan border and Kampala, which will require a $2.3bn investment.…
China rolls out railways across the continent
On a cold day in November 2015, as passengers streamed out of the high-speed train from Beijing to Tianjin, a municipality adjoining the Chinese capital, one person stood out among the casually dressed Chinese commuters in her flamboyant black overcoat with its bright red collar and yellow headwrap striped with green and maroon.…
The rising cost of Kenya’s new railway
The journey by road from Nairobi to Mombasa is a long, 283km drive.…