African rail steaming ahead

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is to lend Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique EP (The Mozambique Rail and Port Authority – CFM) US$40M and act as a facilitator with other lenders to secure a further US$30M.

South African transport utility Transnet has announced that it will seek private sector involvement in operating the container rail corridor between Durban and Gauteng Province

The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG has mandated the Management Board to draw up and prepare the sale of up to 100% of DB Schenker AG

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola globally, is switching to intermodal from trunk road haul in the UK, in a contract with Maritime Transport, with GB Railfreight as rail haulier

This high frequency rail link delivers a strategic answer to persistent requests for more multimodal capacity between Germany, Sweden and Finland, says the multimodal shortsea shipping company

In a statement last week, Transnet said it was confident that the agreement would help facilitate a binding and definitive agreement to resolve pending legal disputes, and thus free the way for the urgent delivery of electric locomotives to Transnet Freight Rail