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Africa’s first high speed train will be launched in Morocco in 2018 after conducting one last test next February, state-owned railway operator ONCF said. The latest tests were staged successfully at a speed of 320 km per hour earlier this week, ONCF said in a statement. The over 2 billion-dollar project has been in development […]
Morocco and the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development signed a financing agreement of the second phase of the high-speed train TGV worth 474 million Dirhams. This loan attests to the strong partnership between the two countries and the interest of Kuwait in Morocco’s strategic development projects, said Morocco’s economy and finance minister Mohamed Boussaid […]
Works to complete Morocco’s high speed train (TGV), the first in Africa, have reached a progress rate of 86% and the project is expected to be ready in summer 2018, said the director general of Morocco’s National Railways facility (ONCF) Mohamed Rabie Khlie. Khlie, who was speaking at a meeting on railway security co-held in […]
Morocco’s high-speed rail service, the first in Africa, is expected to be ready in 2018 with the progress of works reaching 85%, local media outlets reported. Operated by the Moroccan National Railways facility (ONCF), the Moroccan TGV will be launched in June 2018 linking at a first phase the cities of Tangier and Kenitra on […]