The Common market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) is in a process of setting up a modern railway technology known as the Futran System, an automated system that can take a payload of up to 10 tonnes. According to the regional bloc, initial testing of the system is being done with a 3-tonne payload at the Milotek external test facility in South Africa.
"The development of the Futran System is intended to address the need for a new class of cost effective large-scale transportation system in Africa and in the Comesa region. It is particularly targeted in part at densely populated cities," said Comesa.
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