Infrastructure News
Nigeria: 'Gombe - Our Roads Are to Stimulate Economic Growth'
19/11/2012
AllAfrica.com - interview
Gombe — Engineer Hadi Shehu Usman is the Gombe State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure and is currently handling the multi billion Naira road projects across Gombe state. In this interview....
Categories: Transport
African aviation growth accelerating – Boeing
19/11/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - US aerospace group Boeing has reported that the rate of growth in airline traffic in Africa has been better than it forecast last year."There's growth in demand, growth in...
Categories: Transport
Great opportunities and challenges for African airlines
19/11/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - Aviation is a key enabler for the development of international trade and tourism for and within Africa, highlighted South African Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba in his keynote ...
Categories: Transport
Launch of Flagship Road Project in Kenya: Nairobi–Thika superhighway
10/11/2012
African Development Bank - The Presidents of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, and the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, have launched today “the most ambitious infrastructure project in Kenya’s history”: the Nairobi–Thika...
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AfDB-funded Thika Superhighway: A masterpiece for East Africa “A national pride” – President Mwai Kibaki
10/11/2012
African Development Bank - The 50-km Nairobi–Thika superhighway, described by Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki as a source of “national pride” during its launch on November 9, covers an area that lies within the Nairobi...
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AfDB Assists in Launch of Turbi–Moyale Road Upgrading Project
09/11/2012
African Development Bank - The construction of the Turbi–Moyale road upgrading project, which is part of the third and last phase of the Mombasa–Nairobi–Addis Ababa Road Corridor Development project, was launched in Moyale, a...
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Tanzania: Serengeti Airport Gets Green Light
06/11/2012
AllAfrica.com - THE Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) has Okayed the construction of an international airport in Mugumu town of Serengeti District, Mara Region.
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New low-cost African airline to sell first tickets next week
06/11/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - New low-cost African carrier Fastjet would start selling tickets next week, ahead of its first flight later this month, the company, which is featuring the African Grey Parrot as its logo,...
Categories: Transport
Botswana and South Africa sign Memorandum of Cooperation
02/11/2012
SELEBI-PHIKWE: The Minister of Transport and Communications, Nonofo Molefhi and his South African counterpart, Minister of Transport, Ben Martins, have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.
The memorandum, which was signed on ...
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Uganda: Kenya-China Rail to Aid Coal Imports to Uganda
25/10/2012
AllAfrica.com - The new railway line Kenya and Chinese authorities are planning on will transport coal from Tanzania to Uganda for steel making.
The rail deal worth $2.6 billion is one of those infrastructure components that...
Categories: Transport
Lifting barriers could unlock Africa food trade: World Bank
25/10/2012
(Reuters) - Africa could avoid food shortages if it reduces the tangled web of rules, fees and high costs strangling regional food trade and by putting large swathes of uncultivated land to productive use, a World Bank report...
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Liberia: Germany Gives Six Million to Transport Sector
24/10/2012
AllAfrica.com - A six-million euro joint implementation agreement for technical cooperation projects has been concluded between the governments of Liberia and Germany for capacity building in the transport sector.
The...
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IMF warns African oil producers to avoid "white elephants"
23/10/2012
(Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund has urged African oil and gas producing nations to direct their revenue in infrastructure and education rather than on "white elephants".
Exploration in east and southern...
East African energy development could raise future maritime security concerns
23/10/2012
Offshore - Somali pirates no longer benefit from the easy pickings available in years past. Naval operations are increasingly successful, and for the most part, ships transiting the High Risk Area (HRA) are a more difficult...
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Experts Weigh Measures to Up Africa's Maritime
17/10/2012
AllAfrica.com (East African Business Week) - Maritime experts meeting in Mombasa have unveiled a raft of measures aimed at transforming Africa's Maritime industry to international standards.
The first ever Heads of African...
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Ethiopian Builder Sees Revenue Doubling on Infrastructure Spend
12/10/2012
Bloomberg Business Week - Sur Construction Plc, a construction company with ties to Ethiopia’s ruling party, expects to almost double revenue this year as the state boosts investment in infrastructure, General Manager Tadesse...
Video: South Africa - The Rea Vaya Express Bus System
08/10/2012
Traffic congestion is a perennial problem in Johannesburg. One solution could be Rea Vaya, the first public bus rapid transit system, the first of its kind in Africa. The Rea Vaya buses are replacing thousands of taxis and...
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Video: South Africa - Profile of O.R.TAMBO International Airport
08/10/2012
Profile on Africa's busiest airport, and on how Airports Company South Africa was able to make radical infrastructure development rapidly needed for the 2010 Fifa World Cup without closing the airport or affecting operations...
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SAA receives much-anticipated R5bn guarantee
03/10/2012
(Engineering News) - The South African government confirmed on Tuesday that a much-anticipated, and highly controversial, R5-billion guarantee had been extended to South African Airways (SAA) for a period of two years, ...
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South Africa: Troubled parastatals look to Africa for growth
03/10/2012
(Mail & Guardian) - Malusi Gigaba's department of public enterprises has set its eyes on the burgeoning markets in the rest of Africa in a bid to grow profits for the country's ailing parastatals.
...Gigaba said the...
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