by admintc | Jan 30, 2023 | RAIL
Train producer the Gibela Rail Consortium is offering 150 bursaries in 2023 in engineering, production, computer science, supply chain and logistics, and numerous trade fields at universities and trade and technical education and training (TVET) institutions. Gibela... by admintc | Jan 28, 2023 | RAIL
Uganda will ask Turkish company Yapi Merkezi to secure funding for a $2.2 billion rail link to the Kenyan port of Mombasa and is considering export credit firms as possible sources, a senior main informed Reuters. The Turkish construction business had previously... by admintc | Jan 19, 2023 | RAIL
Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has begun with the yearly upkeep shutdown of the Cape Corridor’s East London primary line, which will continue for 7 days up until January 22 and see no trains running on the line. The maintenance is set to improve the 629-km-long... by admintc | Jan 13, 2023 | RAIL
State-owned Transnet says it has reached an impasse with CRRC E-Loco Supply, following an "unwillingness" on the part of CRRC to engage with the relevant authorities in South Africa to normalise its operations in the country. Therefore, Transnet says that, as... by admintc | Dec 20, 2022 | RAIL
Commuter activist group #UniteBehind says it will launch litigation in the new year to compel the minister of transport to hasten the local control of commuter rail to municipalities or provincial governments, also known as devolution if they do not see concrete... by admintc | Dec 5, 2022 | RAIL
South Africa’s State-owned port and rail company Transnet proposed changing to diesel trains to avoid interruptions to coal exports brought on by the theft of power cables that disable electric engines. At least 1 500 km of cable television was taken in the...