BR fails to break even amidst operating losses

The Botswana Railways (BR) continues to face financial and operational challenges, including declining asset availability, maintenance backlogs and safety incidents, a Parliamentary hearing was told. BR caretaker, Okitanye Gaogane, said the state-owned railway company has been transporting around one million tonnes of freight annually, a figure he said remains below the level needed for the organisation to break even.

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