SPEAKING at a conference on high-speed rail in Morocco on May 26-27, Mr Mohamed Rabie Khlie, director general of Moroccan National Railways (ONCF), said the 183km high-speed line under construction between Tangiers and Kenitra will open in June 2018.
IRJ at WCRR 2016, Milan: Leading Italian railway officials have called on the railway industry to better promote its sustainable credentials in order for rail to secure its place as the backbone of transport in the future.
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Egypt's Ministry of International Cooperation on financing for the reconstruction of the Cairo - Heliopolis tram network.
SENEGALESE investment agency Apix has selected Alstom as preferred supplier for a contract to provide rolling stock for the Dakar Express Regional Rail (TER) project.
THE managing director of Kenya Railways Mr Atanas Maina told a stakeholder meeting with the Shippers Council of East Africa on April 28 that more than 75% of civil works have been completed on the 472km Mombasa - Nairobi standard-gauge line.
EGYPT's National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) has awarded a consortium of Vinci Construction Grand Projets, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Egyptian partners Orascom Contruction and Arabco Contractors a contract worth around €1.1bn to carry out civil works on the third phase extension of Cairo metro Line 3.
THE first of 34 Alstom Citadis 402 LRVs for the initial phase of the light rail network in Sidi Bel Abbès arrived in the Algerian city on April 8.
ALSTOM, Algiers Metro Company (EMA), Ferrovial, and Algerian National Railways (SNTF) signed a framework agreement in Algiers on April 10 to expand their Cital joint venture to assemble Alstom Coradia Polyvalent regional and inter-city multiple units at its Annaba plant in eastern Algeria.
ALSTOM has completed its buyout of the remaining 51% share in South African train refurbishment specialist CTLE (Commuter Transport & Locomotive Engineering), previously known as Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW), from CTE (Commuter Transport Engineering) and Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) which remain shareholders.
EGYPTIAN National Railways (ENR) has awarded a contract to Siemens to resignal the main line from Benha, on the Cairo - Alexandria main line, via Zagazig to Port Said, and line from Zagazig to Abu Kebir, in the northeast of the country.
