Category: Transports

$1 million: Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa grant to drive electric mobility shift in seven African countries

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The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA)  of the African Development Bank Group will provide a $1 million technical assistance grant to the Green Mobility Facility for Africa (GMFA). GMFA provides technical assistance and investment capital to accelerate and expand private sector investments in sustainable transport solutions in seven countries: Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and South Africa… read more $1 million: Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa grant to drive electric mobility shift in seven African countries

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Transnet Issues RFP to return long-standing Locomotives to Service to meet Customer Demand

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In a further effort to normalise freight operations in South Africa, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has issued an open competitive tender inviting eligible original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to step in to rehabilitate the non-operational Chinese-manufactured locomotives awaiting critical spare parts. This follows on the impasse with the CRRC E-Loco Supply, the Chinese stateowned supplier of locomotives. CRRC is unwilling to engage with the relevant authorities in South Africa to normalise its operations in the country. Details on the matter of the CRRC has been widely published. TFR has published the…

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Strengthening cooperation in the transport sector at the centre of Moroccan-Gabonese talks

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The means of reinforcing cooperation between Morocco and Gabon in the fields of transport and logistics were at the centre of talks, on Thursday 26 January 2023 in Rabat, between the Minister of Transport and Logistics, Mr. Mohammed ABDELJALIL and his Gabonese counterpart, Mr. Brice Constant Paillat. During this meeting, the two parties reviewed the means of reinforcing and broadening the scope of bilateral cooperation and promoting the exchange of experiences in the fields of transport and logistics. On this occasion, Mr. ABDELJALIL highlighted the importance of developing cooperation relations…

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THE ACTIVITY OF THE PORTS OF MOROCCO FOR THE YEAR 2022

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The Moroccan ports have recorded a positive evolution of the global port traffic, which went from 192.1 million tons in 2021 to 195 million tons in 2022, i.e. an increase of 1.5%: the domestic traffic recorded a volume of 110.1 million tons (-1.2%) while transhipment reached a volume of 84.8 million tons, i.e. a growth of 5.3% compared to 2021. The distribution of traffic in 2022 saw a predominance of transhipment activity, representing a share of 43.5% of overall traffic, followed by imports with 33.8%, exports with 17.8%, cabotage with 3.9%…

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Nigeria : The President Muhammadu Buhari commissions Lekki Deep Sea Port

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On Monday January 23, 2023, the President Muhammadu Buhari officially inaugurated the Lekki Deep Sea Port, in Lagos, Nigeria, in the presence of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, the Minister of Transportation, Muazu Sambo, the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Ciu Jianchun, top government officials and traditional rulers, etc. This project with an investment in excess of $1.5 billion is a Joint Venture between the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Nigerian Ports Authority (5%), Lagos State Government (20%), the Tolarams Group, the owner of the Lagos Free Zone (22.5%),…

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South Africa : Spectacular recovery at Cape Town International Airport over December 2022

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Provincial Minister of Finance and Economic Opportunities, Mireille Wenger today warmly welcomed preliminary statistics received from Airports Company South Africa (ACSA), which showed that Cape Town International Airport recorded a spectacular recovery in passenger numbers during the peak season month of December when compared to pre-pandemic numbers. Minister Wenger said: “These preliminary statistics received from ACSA show that Cape Town International Airport recorded 266 656 international 2-way passenger numbers for December 2022, resulting in a spectacular 95% recovery when compared to December 2019. The domestic terminal, for the same month,…

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Premier Alan Winde Welcomes Partial Resumption of Eerste River-Bellville Train Service

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Premier Alan Winde cautiously welcomes Metrorail’s partial resumption of the train service between Eerste River and Bellville in Cape Town this morning. The service has been suspended since the Covid-19 national state of disaster was implemented in 2020. According to Metrorail, services would have resumed in December 2022 but were delayed due to “environmental issues”. Today’s reintroduction of the service will see the train depart from Bellville station, stopping at Kuils River, Blackheath, Meltonrose, and Eerste River stations. The Premier said, “While this much-needed train service is good news for…

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Uganda : Parliament to debate ways of curbing road accidents

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Legislators will hold a comprehensive debate on how to curb the increasing road accidents which have claimed many lives. In a sitting of the House on Friday, 06 January 2023, the Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa directed the Minister for Works and Transport to present a statement on the road accidents and what the enforcing agencies are doing to curb the carnage. Tayebwa cited the many accidents over the festive season which claimed many lives. Some of the people killed in the accidents included, the former Member of Parliament for Serere…

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SENEGAL-TRANSPORT BRT: The first bus presented in April (Minister)

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The Minister of Infrastructure, Land Transport and Accessibility, Mansour Faye, announced on Thursday that the first BRT (Bus rapid transit) bus will be presented to the public in April.   ”The works of the BRT are following their course, sections are released (…) in March, all the systems and circuits will be released (….). The first bus will be presented, God willing, in April. Trials will follow. Operation will start in the last quarter of 2023,” he said. He was speaking, in Diamniadio, on the sidelines of the launch of the third phase…

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Senegal: Ceremony to hand over the keys of a batch of 300 collective cabs for local urban transport by the Executive Council of Sustainable Urban Transport (CETUD)

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Logistafrica – CETUD proceeded this Thursday, January 5, 2023 to the handing over of keys of a batch of 300 collective cabs for urban transport of proximity, in the presence of the Minister of Infrastructure, Land Transport and Opening up, Mr. Mansour Faye. “The State began since 2005 and in 2016 with the pilot cabs. In 2019, a second phase with the vehicles and today the 300 cabs that we have just handed over the keys. This phase is the result of a private initiative supervised by the state services,…

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