ACCRA (Ghana) — Dubai-based Kampac Oil ME is the leader of a consortium that has won a contract to design, build, operate and transfer an 800 kilometre railway line from Ghana’s port of Takoradi to Hamile, in the country’s upper west region, according to local newspaper reports.
The total cost of the project is expected to be in the region of $1.6 billion. According to Ghana’s Harbours, Ports, and Railways Minister, Professor Christopher Ameyaw Akumfi, the deal is part of the government’s policy to extend the railway network to northern Ghana. The project will involve the rehabilitation of the existing lines from Takoradi to Kumasi and the construction of new ones from Takoradi to Hamile.
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