Eastern rail: We’ve completed PH-Aba rail track laying, says CCECC

Eastern rail: We’ve completed PH-Aba rail track laying, says CCECC

An update on the revival of railway services in the South-East has come from the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation.

The CCECC says it has completed the laying of tracks on the Port Harcourt to Aba section of the eastern narrow gauge railway.

This was given in its latest post published on X. An official of the CCECC, John Zhao, announced the completion of the Port Harcourt to Aba rail line.

He stated, “New year, new progress! The track laying from Port Harcourt to Aba on the Nigeria Eastern Narrow-Gauge Railway project has been completed by #CCECC.”
The announcement was published on the CCECC’s official website on December 29, 2023.
This came less than one week after the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Fidet Okhiria, said track laying from Port Harcourt to Aba rail section would be ready in 15 days.
In March 2021, former President Muhammed Buhari flagged off the $3.2bn Port Harcourt-Maiduguri narrow gauge railway reconstruction project.
Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, had said the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri rail line would connect Rivers, Abia, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna, Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe and Borno states.

In April 2023, the Federal Government announced the commencement of the reconstruction of the eastern rail line.
It also said the Port Harcourt-Enugu section was the first target in the project.