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Following independence in 1960, the Abidjan–Ouagadougou railway was managed and operated by the Régie des chemins de fer Abidjan-Niger (RAN), a public enterprise jointly owned by Côte d'Ivoire and Upper Volta. RAN, which was financially viable until the mid-1970s, prioritised public transport, with 2.6 million passengers in 1967, 4 million ...
Sitarail is a private company that has the concession to operate railway lines formerly operated by national governments in West and Central Africa. Countries include: Countries include: Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso
A Sitarail train in July 2009 Agboville station in July 2009. Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) has 660 kilometres (410 mi) of railway (1995 estimate). The track gauge is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in). The railway was built during the French colonial period, and links the port city of Abidjan with Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.
There are 622 kilometres of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge railway in Burkina Faso, which run from Kaya to the border with Côte d'Ivoire and is part of the Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway. As of June 2024, 'Sitarail' does not operate a passenger train to Abidjan.
The total traffic in 2005, by adding importation to exportation, was 18 661 784 tons for autonomous port of Abidjan and 1 001 991 tons for San-Pedro. The autonomous port of Abidjan cover a 770 hectares area and shelters 60% of the country industries. It is the first tuna fishing port in Africa.
File:Sitarail train.jpg. Add languages. ... Burkina Faso, bound for Abidjan. Locomotive: General Motor of Canada GT22LC2 (built 1981). Date: 21 May 2006 ...
2015 - Abidjan Metro [7] 2014. Minister of economic infrastructure proposes a $160 million railway from Ouangolo in northern Ivory Coast to Sikasso in southern Mali.
This is an incomplete list of the world's railway operating companies listed alphabetically by continent and country. This list includes companies operating both now and in the past.