The
Turkish railway construction business Warpi Merkezy, which
has operations throughout
Ali Salih Uslu, Business Development Manager at Warpi Merkezy, claimed that they were looking into more simple and technical ways to reduce the cost of NRZ requirements on railway lines.
This is based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in November following many meetings.
Officials from the company have been in
“We will assess to reduce costs for the country, but for
now, we have no figures,” Uslu said. “We need additional study and have a
projects manager in
With increasing traffic loads over the years, there are concerns regarding the 198-meter-long, 128-meter-high bridge’s safety.
The bridge was constructed in 1904 and completed in 1905 as
part of Cecil John Rhodes’ Cape to
The
Apart from repainting NRZ and Zambia Railways co-owners, no significant repairs have been made to the bridge.
Martin Dinha, the chairman of the NRZ board, claimed that the company’s equipment and fleet were worn out, obsolete, and vandalised in general.
Warpi Merkezy is returning for a second technical visit to assess how they can fit in and prepare a financial plan for railway line rehabilitation and modernisation, among other things.
Dinha remarked in a Victoria Falls interview that he
believes the
The