Tata Steel has opened a new plant in France which can produce 108 metre sections of high durability rail. For emerging markets such as those in the MENA area using Continuous Welded Rail systems this will be a cheaper, more efficient means of building their railways. The patented technique for making longer lasting rails that […]
In a bid to encourage political engagement by the country and compete with the Suez Canal, Russia is to build a rail link across North Korea to South Korea. This will enable freight by railway to go from Western Europe to the Pacific in under 14 days rather than 45 days by sea via the […]
A loan from China will fund the Kenyan section of a standard gauge railway between Mombasa and Bujumbura. The loan, worth $3.5 billion, will be spent on building the railway and paying for rolling stock. The railway should be complete by 2018. The loan will be on favourable terms, with a holiday on repayments until […]
The Ethiopian Railway Corporation has expressed confidence that the Ethio to Djibouti railway line will be complete on the target date of 2015. The railway will connect Addis Ababa with the Red Sea port of Doraleh, allowing good freight transport links with the rest of the world by sea. Two Chinese companies are building three […]
The Mombasa to Nairobi railway has had a cash injection of $3.75bn in a loan from China and should be complete by 2018. The standard gauge railway will cut journey times and increase capacity for intermodal trade via Mombasa. The railway is initially built between Kenya’s major port and capital city but is planned to […]
Ministers from the United Arab Emirates and Russia have agreed a Memorandum of Intent for the UAE to invest up to $5 billion in infrastructure projects across the Russian Federation, to include upgrading the Trans Siberian Railway and a high speed rail link from Moscow to Kazan. The Memorandum of Intent is to work on […]
Leaders of Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya have signed a deal to build a new railway line from Kigali via Kampala to Mombasa to feed goods and services to and from central Africa to the Kenyan port. A line already exists from Mombasa to the Ugandan city of Jinjan but has suffered from decades of under […]
A railway line between Niger’s capital Niamey and the commercial hub of Abidjan in Ivory Coast is scheduled to be built from next year. This will be Niger’s first ever railway. It is believed to be part funded by the EU and a Manganese billionaire from Romania called Frank Timis. The service will run through […]
Japan’s 500 km/h maglev railway service of 286 km between Tokyo and Nagoya is scheduled to open in 2027. The extremely expensive, USD $52bn line is still going to make the private company building it a profit. The costs involved are high, as the service has to be as straight as possible and as flat […]
Through a partnership between government and private companies, the United Kingdom government is helping Nigeria build a 27 km railway line in Lagos. The Blue Line is going to be the spine of Lagos new railway system, designed to reduce road congestion in the city. It will be built and run in a Public - […]
