NAMIBIA’s national railway TransNamib moved an important step closer to alleviating its chronic locomotive shortage on January 13, when a batch of six GE Transportation C23EMP diesel-electric locomotives arrived at the port of Walvis Bay.
NAMIBIA's national railway TransNamib has signed a $US 10.1m contract with China Railway Materials Commercial Corporation for 90 tank wagons, which will be used to carry sulphuric acid.
GE Transportation Africa president and CEO Mr Thomas Konditi and Mr Hippy Tijvikua, acting CEO of Namibia's national railway TransNamib signed a $US 22.7m contract in Windhoek on September 11 for six 1067mm-gauge C23EMP diesel locomotives.
A new board of directors at TransNamib is providing a life-line to Namibia's railway, which has suffered from decades of under-investment in its network and fleet, as Paul Ash reports from Windhoek.
NAMIBIA's state-owned railway TransNamib is seeking to acquire 21 secondhand GE U20C diesel locomotives following problems with new Chinese-built motive power.
Huge and largely untapped coal reserves look set to revive the fortunes of Botswana Railways which until recently had been staring extinction in the face, as Paul Ash discovers.