Operators, government and end users face challenges ranging from expert understanding of operations, planning, technology, innovation, customer satisfaction and growth. In addition to being an extremely mature industry, railroads are capital intensive, and requires infrastructural developments and network upgrades from time to time. The growth of demand for rail, driven partly by huge investment in infrastructure and services by government, and also by the industry’s own efforts to raise its standards, is both a great advertisement and opportunity for the sector. But demand growth has also put pressure on a network which, in places, is near its capacity.
Africa Rail 2016 will shed more light on what is being done about the challenges and what opportunities are in the industry.
