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RAILWAY TRANSPORT OF PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT |
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PRESS RELEASE |
The inauguration of the EM railway geometric control
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Minister of Transport, Pr Robert NKILI, in the presence of Hamadou Sali and Quentin Gérard, respectively Chairman of the Board and Managing director of Camrail as well as members of the interministerial comittee of the railway infrastructures ( COMIFER), proceed on Wednesday, December 03rd, 2014 to the train station of Yaoundé, for the inauguration of the railway’s geometric control parameters.
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Constructed by the Plasser and Theurer Company,Austrian specialist in railway maintenance,the geometric parameter for control, will allow the cameroonian railway to collect information on the geometrical quality of the rail, the data on the profiles of rails, route degradation and surface defects.It is going to enable the obtainance of precise data of measurement both on high and low speed. This vehicle permits the realisation of measures on highly sollicited routes as high as 80 kph(maximal speed in terms of units) of measurement. The result of the measurement will be calculated in real time by means of a computerised equipement on board the device. The railway control of a value of 2 310 000 000 Fcfa TTC, will entrance the amelioration of the annual maintenance program, as well as the fast and easy verification of the quality of work effectuated on the new railway and mechanical items.
The acquisition of this railway control vehicule is in conformity wiyh the provisions of the convention on concession over the period 2009-2020, on the investment of 230 Billions CFAF, with 158 Billions financed by Camrail.
The inauguration of this service comes at a time when Camrail celebrates her fifteen years of succes in Cameroon.
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