Project Milestone

WEST COAST HIGH SPEED RAIL

The West Coast High Speed Rail Project is the first HSR project in the continent of Africa designed, structured and poised to be a world-class, unique, high speed, low environmental impact speed rail transport system that will span across 5 West African countries. It will significantly open regional arteries to support and provide travel and market access to the region’s peoples and bring affordable regional travel and freighting services to millions in the region.

The project is aggressively designed and structured as an environmentally friendly transport system developed to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the region’s transport sectors and will bring much needed infrastructural development to Africa as a truly scalable and replicable mega project. It is a world-class high speed rail project that will become the beacon and standard for the rest of the Continent to follow and replicate.

The West Coast High Speed Rail Project is designed to run along the western coast of Africa, covering an approximate distance of 1,178.84 km originating from Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire) and terminating in Badagry / Lagos (Nigeria). Africa is the continent of new opportunities… we have a clean landscape, immense natural resources and people groups committed to see accountable and responsible development within a low carbon footprint. This project will serve our people, our business and our environment and bring with it economic and developmental opportunity in Western Africa not experienced as yet.

Project Phase 4

Activity

Further phases to be advised in due course

¨ On 2nd August 2013 the first Ministerial meeting of the WCHSRP was held at the Boardroom of the Ministry of Transport, Ghana and representatives of the Ministers of Transport of Ghana, Cote d’ Ivoire, Togo and Benin and Ecowas/Cedeao were in attendance.

¨ It was agreed at the meeting that the project was desirable and should be vigorously pursued with the aim of obtaining written commitments from the Transport Ministers of the five countries.

¨ A second, fuller, Ministerial meeting was held at Senchi on 25th October 2013 with the Ghana Minister of Transport as the Chair. At the meeting, the Honourable Minister of Transport, Ghana was designated Champion and Ambassador of the project.

¨ Ecowas/Cedeao wrote a letter acknowledging the desirability of the project and advised that Hammcobtb visit all the individual countries separately to obtain their consent.

CURRENT DEVELOPMENT

¨ In pursuance to the above advice, Hammcobtb has moved and obtained letters of ‘Expression of Interest’ from the Republics of Ghana, Togo and Benin. Similar letters from Cote d’ Ivoire and Nigeria are being expected soon.

¨ At the moment, each country is raising a Technical Committee of professionals for the pre-feasibility work and subsequent feasibility study prior to the commencement of the Project.