SOUTH African freight logistics, shipping and financial service company Grindrod has announced plans to sell its locomotive assembly business due to the company’s deteriorating financial performance and an impairment of Rand 675m ($US 50.6m) for its rail businesses.
CAMRAIL, the concessionaire operating 517km of Cameroon's 1104km metre-gauge network, has unveiled nine new GPR 3000 locomotives it has acquired as part of a $US 383m modernisation programme.
MANAGERS from Cameroon railway concessionaire Camrail and government representatives visited the port of Douala on April 18 to witness the unloading of two new GL30SCM DC diesel locomotives.
CAMEROON and its landlocked neighbour Chad reached an agreement on June 3 to carry out a feasibility study into the construction of a 700km line linking Ngaoundéré in northeast Cameroon with Ndjamena, the Chadian capital.
In their rush to extract western Africa's vast mineral wealth, mining companies are revitalising existing, and building new, heavy-haul rail lines. Paul Ash presents a comprehensive round-up of the latest activities in the region.