BOTSWANA Railways (BR) has issued a call for tender for the supply of three DMUs with a closing date for bids of September 7.
SIX years after Botswana Railways (BR) became a freight-only operation, the country's president Mr Ian Khama has announced plans to restore passenger services from Francistown in the north of the country to the capital Gaborone and Lobatse on the South African border from next March.
IRJ at IHHA 2015, Perth, Australia: TRANSNET says it is close to completing a study on a new heavy-haul railway which would enable landlocked Botswana to export its vast coal reserves through the South African port of Richards Bay.
EMD has secured four separate orders to supply locomotives to customers in Africa.
THE GOVERNMENTS of Botswana and Namibia have signed an agreement to build the Trans-Kalahari Railway (TKR), a 1500km heavy-haul line linking Botswana's coalfields with the existing railhead at Gobabis in Namibia.
BOTSWANA Railways (BR) has issued a call for tender for the supply of eight diesel-electric locomotives. BR currently has a fleet of 38 locomotives of three different types.