#PortHarcourtMaiduguriRail is a 3-in-1 Project:
—Rail Line reconstruction itself (the line runs across 12 States)—with NEW branch lines: Bonny-Onne-Owerri; Goniri-Gashua; Kafanchan-Rigachikun; Kuru-Jos
—Brand new deep sea port on Bonny Island
—Industrial Park in Port Harcourt
—Rail Line reconstruction itself (the line runs across 12 States)—with NEW branch lines: Bonny-Onne-Owerri; Goniri-Gashua; Kafanchan-Rigachikun; Kuru-Jos
—Brand new deep sea port on Bonny Island
—Industrial Park in Port Harcourt
Railway Compound in PH, where the #PortHarcourtMaiduguriRail groundbreaking is taking place. Event has kicked off.
This is a question A LOT of people have been asking: Why Narrow Gauge for Eastern Corridor?
HM @ChibuikeAmaechi has now answered it. There’s plan for a 1,500km Standard Gauge Line for Eastern Corridor (PH-Maid), but while funding is being sought, Narrow Gauge is being revamped.
HM @ChibuikeAmaechi has now answered it. There’s plan for a 1,500km Standard Gauge Line for Eastern Corridor (PH-Maid), but while funding is being sought, Narrow Gauge is being revamped.
HM @ChibuikeAmaechi:
- The #PortHarcourtMaiduguriRail (1,443km) revamp will be Cofinanced by a syndicate of Chinese lenders, with FGN counterpart funding.
- Deep Sea Port and Railway Industrial Park will be funded by a Direct investment from CCECC, at a cost of $700m.
- The #PortHarcourtMaiduguriRail (1,443km) revamp will be Cofinanced by a syndicate of Chinese lenders, with FGN counterpart funding.
- Deep Sea Port and Railway Industrial Park will be funded by a Direct investment from CCECC, at a cost of $700m.
.@CCECC8 MD: #PortHarcourtMaiduguriRail and Deep Sea Port and Railway Industrial Park project will generate 10,000 jobs during construction and 5,000 permanent jobs when operational.
HM @ChibuikeAmaechi: #PortHarcourtMaiduguriRail will run at 60-80km per hour for freight and 80-100km for passengers.
WILT: @CCECC8 was once the Foreign Aid Department of China’s Ministry of Railways. It was as Foreign Aid Dept that it developed the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) Rail Line, in the 1970s.
Now speaking: Pres @MBuhari
Says revamped #PortHarcourtMaiduguriRail (with New branch lines to Owerri,Bonny,Damaturu) will be linked to existing SGR using new Transshipment Centers
Rail: 85% from lenders, FGN counterpart of 15%
Port & Park: Direct Investment by CCECC & funders
Says revamped #PortHarcourtMaiduguriRail (with New branch lines to Owerri,Bonny,Damaturu) will be linked to existing SGR using new Transshipment Centers
Rail: 85% from lenders, FGN counterpart of 15%
Port & Park: Direct Investment by CCECC & funders
The revamped #PortHarcourtMaiduguriRail will run across 12 States and 65 LGAs. And terminate in a brand new Sea Port on Bonny Island, with a link to a new Railway Industrial Park in Port Harcourt.
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