BOTSWANA: South Africa’s Transnet Engineering is delivering 30 coal wagons, 260 salt wagons and 272 general purpose wagons to Botswana Railways.
The national operator is upgrading its fleet and has also called tenders for the supply of eight diesel locomotives.
The coal wagons have entered traffic on services linking the Morupule coal mine with the Selebi Phikwe power station.
Australia: The state of Victoria has placed a A$200m order for a further 40 Bombardier VLocity DMU cars for delivery in 2014-16, a mix of new units and extra cars to lengthen existing units to three cars for when the Regional Rail Link opens in 2016. Botswana: BR is ...
Botswana: BR Procurement Manager Mogwena Mookodi has announced plans to acquire 160 open wagons to carry bulk export salt from Botswana Ash’s plant to the port of Durban in South Africa. Canada: Assisted by the federal ecoFreight programme, Montréal Port Authority has ordered a 2000 hp genset locomotive from ...
BOTSWANA: Botswana Railways' passenger service is to be suspended with effect from April 1, the Ministry of Works & Transport announced on February 25. The overnight train between Francistown and Lobatse accounts for less than 10% of BR's operating revenues, and loses P30m a year which has until now been ...
