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Itapke-Warri Rail Project Gets New Delivery Date

The federal government has given a new August 2018 deadline for completion of the 323km Itapke -Warri rail project. Sunday Okobi takes a look at the feasibility or otherwise, given that the contract terms gave March 2019 as the delivery date. In August 2017, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, conducted a site inspection

DHL, Rail Cargo Group, expand China’s ‘Belt-Road’ plan with new Chengdu-Vienna route

Left to right: Erik Regter (Member of the Board RCG), Thomas Kowitzki (Head of China Rail, Multimodal Europe, DHL Global Forwarding), Thomas Kargl (Member of the Board RCG), Christoph Wahl (Managing Director Austria, DHL Global Forwarding) and Clemens Först (Spokesperson of the Board RCG) In a deal spanning six countries and

Nairobi to Get New Daily Train Service to Ease Traffic

Commuters boarding a train at Syokimau Railway Station in Nairobi. FILE Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) has announced plans to start a daily train service connecting Nairobi's central business district to Kahawa as part of government efforts to ease traffic congestion in the capital city. The new service will start on Monday next

Nigeria asks Chinese contractor handling Lagos-Ibadan railway project to work day, night

Nigeria's Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has advised the contractor handling the 150-kilometre Lagos-Ibadan railway project, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, to work day and night to avoid extending its delivery date beyond December this year. The minister stated this on Monday after the monthly meeting of the Project Steering

Confederation of Zimbabwe Industry Welcomes National Railways Revival

The revival of National Railways of Zimbabwe comes as one of the key economic deliverables that will set many companies on a recovery trajectory as it has potential to significantly lower heavy industries' transport costs, Confederation of Zimbabwe Industry (CZI) Bulawayo chapter president Joseph Gunda has said. President Mnangagwa commissioned a

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