page_title: Rail transport in Chad
section_title: 21st Century
hierarchical_section_title: Rail transport in Chad / History / 21st Century
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the proposed Railway System in Chad, following an agreement between Chinese Companies, Cameroon and Chad.
context_page_description: Up to 2012 Chad had no rail system. Two lines are planned to Sudan and Cameroon from the capital with construction expected to start in February 2016 and be complete in 4 years.
context_section_description: In March 2011 Chad and China Civil Engineering Construction Corp (CCECC) reached agreement on a (estimated $7 billion) contract to build over 1300 km of standard gauge railway lines in Chad. The lines would be built primarily for freight but would also carry passengers. In August 2011 Sudan, Chad and the Export-Import Bank of China were reported to have reached an agreement to construct a cross border line from Chad's capital to the rail line at Nyala, Sudan. On 24 December 2011 the Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation of Chad and CCECC signed the agreement (then valued at $5.6 billion) for the line's construction - with construction planned to start in February 2012.
  Two lines are planned: one from the capital N'Djamena to Moundou and Koutéré on the Cameroon border (528 km), and one from the capital to the border with Sudan (836 km) via Abéché and Adré.  The lines are to be built to standard gauge and for 120 km/h running, and equipment for the line will be sourced in China.
caption: Map of the proposed Railway System in Chad.(Routes indicative).
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