Burundi And DRC Ink Agreement For Electrified Standard Gauge Railway Project Feasibility Study
On 31st March 2023, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed the contract for the Feasibility Study and Preliminary Engineering Design of the electrified Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) for the Gitega-Bujumbura-Uvira-Kindu section, part of the multinational SGR project between Burundi, DRC and Tanzania...
Burundi and Tanzania collaborate on a cross-border electric railway project to boost trade
- Tanzania and Burundi have put out a request for proposals for the design and construction of an electrified railway.
- The project will involve the construction of approximately 282km of electrified Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line...
East Africa's electric trains set to speed up intra-African trade
Tanzania and Burundi have floated a tender for designing and constructing an electrified railway that will initially connect the two countries and pass through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the countries look to tap AfCFTA, the world's largest single market, and create the continent's second multinational electrified railway... Upon completion, it is set to become Africa's second cross-border electrified rail after Ethiopia and Djibouti launched the continent's first fully electric multinational railway line, in 2016...
