Rail Transport In Mali
Mali has one 1000mm gauge railroad (the Dakar–Niger Railway), of which 649 km is in Mali. The line runs from the port of Koulikoro via Bamako to the border with Senegal and continues on to Dakar. The Bamako-Dakar line, which has been described as dilapidated, was owned by a joint company established by Mali and Senegal in 1995, with the eventual goal of privatization. The Malian portion of the railroad carried an estimated 536,000 tons of freight and 778,000 passengers in 1999. The track is in poor condition, and the line is closed frequently during the rainy season. The line is potentially significant because it links landlocked Mali to the port of Dakar, increasingly of interest for Malian exports in the face of the disruption of access to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Côte d'Ivoire, as a result of civil conflict in that country beginning in late 2002. In 2003, the two countries sold a 25-year concession to run the rail line to a Canadian company, which pledged to upgrade equipme ...
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