Dakar - Bamako Standard Gauge Railway (Senegal section)

First phase of the Dakar- Bamako Railway Project entailing investment in new rail infrastructure (track and rolling stock) to upgrade existing network of the Senegal section of the 1,228 km railway between Dakar and the border with Mali.

DESCRIPTION

This project covers the Senegal portion of the Dakar-Ndjamena-Djibouti Road/ Railway project. This is a multimodal transboundary transport corridor including Senegal, Mali, Burkina-Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. It is a combination of the Trans-African Highway 5 (Dakar to N’djamena) and 6 (N’djamena to Djibouti), a combined distance covered of 8,715 km. 

However over time, the railway transport route between Dakar and Bamako has become degraded and and created hindrances in the international services for passenger transportation. In order to improve the competitiveness of the route, the two states financed a study in order to define the best way to finance or to participate in the funding of the Dakar- Bamako railway infrastructure upgrade.

The project will have the following components:

• Rehabilitation of the platform and reconstruction of the engineering works to 22.5 tons / axle;
• Railway rehabilitation (main roads and service roads)
• Implementation of a train cantonment system and a telecommunications system in line with UIC railway standards;
• Acquisition of rolling stock and railway equipment;
• Development and renovation of station facilities.

The Dakar-Bamako Rail Project has been prioritised by the Government of Senegal as the first of three phases of the Project. It entails the rehabilitation of the existing railway network between Dakar and Bamako (1,228 km), with a total project cost of US$ 2.2 billion.

OBJECTIVES AND RATIONALE

PROJECT RISKS

PROJECT ECONOMICS

• NET PRESENT VALUE: 215.00

• COST BENEFIT RATIO: 0.00

• FINANCIAL INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN (FIRR): 8.70

• ECONOMIC INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN (EIRR): 12.00

• COMMENTS ON ECONOMICS: Project economics and finances reflected here refers also to “T.13.05 Dakar - Bamako Standard Gauge Railway (Senegal section)”.

PROJECT FINANCING

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

OVERALL COST: 0.00

ANNUAL COST: 0.00

COMMENTS ON FINANCE:

STUDIES

PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS

Continental Coordinator

African Union Development Agency

Lead National Agency

Mali - Direction Nationale des Transports Terrestre, Maritime et Fluviaux

Lead REC

Economic Community of West African States

Lead National Agency

Senegal - Ministère des Infrastructures, des Transports Terrestres et du Désenclavement

Lead National Agency

Transrail Senegal

CONTACTS

Ibrahim Maiga-ibramaiga@gmail.com

Baba Diankha-ancf.diankha@gmail.com

Kebba Fye-kebba.fye@gmail.com

Mr. Peter Ofori-Asumadu -poasumadu@yahoo.com

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