Camrail
Sign in to saveCamrail is a company operating passenger and freight traffic between the two largest cities in Cameroon and several smaller cities. The company was formed in 1999 and granted a 20-year concession to operate the Cameroon National Railway. The company is a subsidiary of French investment group Bolloré and the railway has been operated by Comazar, a subsidiary of Bolloré, since 1999. According to the Comazar website, the government of Cameroon owns the track while the rolling stock is owned by Camrail.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Camrail is referenced by 34 other articles, and connects out to Cameroon, Yaoundé and Douala.
It is catalogued under topics including Companies based in Douala, Rail transport in Cameroon and Railway companies of Cameroon.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- railway company
- Country
- Cameroon
- Headquarters
- Douala
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
- Official website
- www.camrail.net
- Image
- Passa du train.JPG
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- track gauge
- 1000 mm track gauge
- date of official opening
- 1999-00-00
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- member of
- International Union of Railways
- Commons category
- Camrail
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Services
- Passenger
- Freight
- Characteristics
- Gauge
- Loading Gauge
- Sleepers
- Axle load
- Couplers
- Gradients
- Crossing Loops
- Bridges
- Communications
- Colour scheme
- Rolling stock
- Accidents
- See also
- Timeline
- See also
- References
- External links
Camrail is a company operating passenger and freight traffic between the two largest cities in Cameroon and several smaller cities. The company was formed in 1999 and granted a 20-year concession to operate the Cameroon National Railway. The company is a subsidiary of French investment group Bolloré and the railway has been operated by Comazar, a subsidiary of Bolloré, since 1999. According to the Comazar website, the government of Cameroon owns the track while the rolling stock is owned by Camrail.
According to a report by the World Bank in 2011, Camrail ranked relatively high amongst African countries for productivity indicators and was considered a regional leader in terms of implementing a concession to a non-state operator. The 2016 Eséka train derailment took place on Camrail tracks and the company was under investigation by the government and was sued by relatives of the 79 passengers who died in the crash.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Camrail” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.