Infrastructure News

News Day - 23 April 2012

The Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) disbursed close to $70 million to fund 32 infrastructure projects in the first three months of the year.

The bulk of the projects...

Reuters - 17 April 2012

Kenya has taken steps to transform its sole oil refinery from a heavily-subsidised operation to improve its efficiency and bring down costs of its products, the energy ministry said on Tuesday.

In...

ABNDigital - 18 April 2012

Comair was founded by the Novick and Moritz families, and operates the British Airways licence in South Africa. It also operates under the banner kulula.com, and has a market cap of R665 million....

Africa Report - 18 April 2012

South Africa's largest trade union federation says it is ready for a battle with the government if it continues with the contentious e-tolling system in the country's economic hub of Gauteng.The...

Organizers: West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) & Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Creamer Media's Engineering News - 17 April 2012

Africa would need more than 800 new airplanes over the next 20 years and between 14 000 and 20 000 new trained pilots, Boeing Commercial Airplanes international sales director...

Un projet portant sur l'électrification et le doublement d'un tronçon de 200 km de voie ferrée traversant la région de Tébessa en Algérie va débuter d'ici la fin de...

 Reuters - 16 April 2012

* Some citizens head for interior, fear conflict after coup

* Military restrict air, sea traffic, cite national security

* Portugal sends force to rescue its nationals if necessary

* ECOWAS...

Mining Weekly - 16 April 2012

PERTH (miningweekly.com) - ASX-listed Cape Lambert has signed a binding heads of agreement for infrastructure access with its wholly-owned subsidiary Marampa Iron Ore and Aim-listed African...

Fin24 - 16 April 2012

Johannesburg - Motorists who do not register for e-tags will pay a three times higher punitive rate for using Gauteng's new toll roads, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) said on Monday....

Financial Mail - 16 April 2012

It should spell boom times for airlines but as things now stand few are benefiting, says Comair CEO Erik Venter.

“Comair would fly all over Africa if it were possible,” he says. “There is 20%-...

East African - 14 April 2012

In her column last week, Rasna Warah offered a critique of “traditional donors” in Africa, and heralded a new approach, led by China and embodied most recently by Turkey.

What is this “new...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - 13 April 2012

Rail infrastructure contractor Racec has successfully completed major projects in the Northern Cape and Sierra Leone and has consolidated its position as a rail contractor...

Creamer Media Engineering News - 13 April 2012

Concrete products manufacturer Rocla has added the Alfabloc precast concrete retaining wall system to its range of products.

Rocla sales engineer Justin Kretzmar says that, while...

World Bank - 9 April 2012

Roughly the size of France, the landlocked country of South Sudan only has about 4,000 km of all weather roads which are classified as international and interstate roads. Watch this video to find out...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - 13 April 2012

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Plans for unlocking South Africa's coal- and platinum-rich northern mineral belt through transport, water and energy interventions, were...

Creamer Media - 11 April 2012

State freight logistics group Transnet says it will shift its capital expenditure (capex) focus over the coming seven years from maintenance expenditure to expansionary investments and spend...

Creamer Media's Engineering News - 11 April 2012

Africa is able to spend about $72-billion a year on infrastructure, but there remains a $480-billion shortfall over the next decade, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.

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Business Daily - 11 April 2012

Five east African countries have improved business environment for entrepreneurs in their respective nations by implementing critical regulatory reforms, a report by the World Bank has said.

The...

Informante - 11 April 2012

Editorial

One could assume that the firing of Titus Haimbili as TransNamib CEO came too late for tears as he has not only run the transport entity into the ground, but has also caused the collapse...