{"id":28133,"date":"2024-02-07T11:46:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T11:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/?p=28133"},"modified":"2024-02-07T11:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T11:46:25","slug":"ghana-receives-first-batch-of-modern-trains-from-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/ghana-receives-first-batch-of-modern-trains-from-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Receives First Batch Of Modern Trains From Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a ceremony in Poland, the new train that was manufactured for Ghanaian railway transit was given to the Ghanaian government. This marks a significant turning point for Ghana&#8217;s transportation industry as the first set of 12 cutting-edge trains from Poland arrive. On Friday, February 2, 2024, in Poland, the transfer ceremony was held.<\/p>\n<p>The Tema-Mpakadan standard-gauge railway line will make use of it. Passengers can choose to transfer from a standard-gauge line to a narrow-gauge line, which will take them to the center of Accra, after the train travels from Mpakadan via Kpong, Juapong, and Doryumu to Tema port.<\/p>\n<p>The 97-kilometres standard-gauge Tema-Mpakadan railway line was built to assist the flow of people and products along Ghana&#8217;s Eastern Corridor. It completes and is a component of the multimodal transportation network connecting the Tema port to the southern and northern inland ports of Ghana. That railway line is nearly ninety-eight per cent developed, and it will be finished in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The line is a component of a 1000 km long interconnectivity project between Ghana and Burkina Faso that would link Ouagadougou with the Port in Tema. By mid-March 2024, the first train\u2014which is intended to run smoothly on both long- and regional-distance lines\u2014should arrive in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first standard gauge that the Ghanaian government has ever purchased for use in domestic operations. It is anticipated that the train will depart Poland in mid-February 2024, travelling for roughly four weeks before arriving in Ghana in mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>After that, it will undergo system testing, plug all the holes, conduct several trial runs, and be prepared for the President to commission it sometime in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ensure consistent and persistent maintenance so that the train can last longer,&#8221; he stated, summarizing the crucial element. These trains are designed to last for at least 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>For upcoming business ventures, Ghana is seeking a long-term partnership with PESA since we think PESA has what it takes to sustain the Ghana Railway network. He clarified that to guarantee that &#8220;this train will last longer for the people of Ghana,&#8221; Ghana has signed a five-year maintenance deal with PESA and hopes to extend it to ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana Railways and the Polish manufacturer have a thorough framework contract in place for the purchase of these contemporary trains, with the ordering party having the option to add an extra 10 vehicles at a later time.<\/p>\n<p>These diesel multiple units&#8217; technical specs are quite similar to those of the well-known RegioFox cars that Bydgoszcz makes for Czech Railways.<\/p>\n<p>For the purchase of these modern trains, Ghana Railways and the Polish manufacturer have a comprehensive framework contract in place, with the ordering party having the option to add 10 vehicles at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanical specifications of these diesel multiple units are remarkably close to those of Bydgoszcz&#8217;s well-known RegioFox carriages, which are built for Czech Railways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a ceremony in Poland, the new train that was manufactured for Ghanaian railway transit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497.jpg",1200,636,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497-300x159.jpg",300,159,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497-768x407.jpg",640,339,true],"large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497-1024x543.jpg",640,339,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497.jpg",1200,636,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497.jpg",1200,636,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497.jpg",1024,543,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497.jpg",825,437,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497.jpg",590,313,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"nkyeremunews","author_link":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/author\/nkyeremunews\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/category\/general-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/category\/uncategorised\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Nkyeremu<\/a>","tag_info":"Nkyeremu","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BeFunky-collag-2024-02-06T232521.497.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}