By REUTERS
Ivory Coast said it had signed an initial agreement with a consortium
including France's Bouygues and South Korea's Hyundai and Dongsan
Engineering to build a 1 billion euro ($1.4 billion) urban rail line in
Abidjan.French-speaking West Africa's largest economy has
been emerging from a decade-long political crisis that ended in a brief
civil war in 2011, and the government is now seeking to improve long
neglected infrastructure. The proposed project would involve construction of a 37 km (23 mile) rail line from Abidjan's international airport in the south of the city, through the city centre to its northern suburbs. The line would transport an estimated 300,000 passengers a day, alleviating the traffic jams that currently plague the city of around 5 million inhabitants, the government said in a statement. "The estimated cost of the project is around 1 billion euros," an official with Ivory Coast's transport ministry said, declining to give a timetable for when construction was expected to begin.
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