By: Justicia Shipena

 

The HyRail Project may soon return €7.6 million (approximately N$152 million) from a €30 million grant provided by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Spearheaded by TransNamib in collaboration with Hyphen Technical, Belgium’s CMB.TECH, the University of Namibia (Unam), and Traxtion, the HyRail project aimed to introduce dual-fuel locomotives powered by Namibian green hydrogen.

However, the project has decided not to pursue the construction of hydrogen-powered trains.

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