https://guardian.ng/news/fg-to-unbundle-nigeria-railway-corporation-for-private-sector-investment/ The success of the locomotive retrofitting is firstly down to the innovation, tenacity and industry of the De Sadel Consortium, a gas, power and rail investor. Second, is...
Michael Holden | 18 September 2024 Arriva Group has published its recommendations to the UK Government on how using its five-step plan can help deliver an urgent reform. Accelerating The Government’s Ambition...
https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/london-glasgow-avanti-west-coast-edinburgh-pendolino-train-rail-breakdown-abington-4775886 The West Coast Main Line is the UK’s busiest railway corridor and between the Tories, DfT, Avanti, Network Rail and the ORR, we’ve had an almighty cock up...
https://www.voanews.com/a/key-chinese-belt-and-road-projects-underway-in-africa/7767507.html As FOCAC gets underway in Beijing in the next few days, it is not lost on its purpose of “equal consultation, enhancing understanding, expanding consensus, strengthening friendship and...
Bloomberg News | August 24, 2024 | News Africa Copper Lobito railway runs from Lobito port, on Angola’s Atlantic coast, to the DRC and Zambia. Credit: Ministry of Transport, Angola https://www.mining.com/web/scramble-for-critical-minerals-spurs-an-african-rail-revival/ Lots...
The Channels interview with the MD of NRC, Engr. Fidet Okhiria was cringe worthy on many levels. It was as if the $66bn allegedly required for rail infrastructure was...
https://punchng.com/stakeholders-propose-nrc-privatisation-to-curb-train-derailments/ Train derailments are not unusual in railways but given our relatively low traffic volumes, three derailments in three weeks is cause for serious concern. The attribution to vandalism...
“In a riveting story last year, rail expert Rowland Ataguba, a member of the NRC, (sic) offered a penetrating analysis of ‘The Trouble With ‘Abuja Light Rail.’ If we...
By Daniel Adaji | 28th April 2024 Chief Executive Officer of Bethlehem Rail Infrastructure Ltd in London and Chairman of the Rail Work Group of the Nigerian Economic Summit...
A $475 million light-rail system serving Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa shows how some China-funded infrastructure investments across the continent are now suffering from neglect. By Fasika Tadesse | April 12, 2024 at...