The new name of Citadel Capital…the transliteration of the Arabic word for citadel, just for your information…like most criminals, they use more than one name.
Here you can see the influence of investors and multinationals on policy.
Qalaa has long pushed for the price of fuel to be increased, and subsidies cancelled, exactly to create profit for some of their core investments.
The hope of profitability behind Qalaa’s injection of capital is based on the expectation that RVR will have increased demand for freight shipments. Part of this expectation is due to the increase in the price of fuel which will force more people to ship goods by rail instead of by truck.
Another important point here…
You can see what I mean about how business reveals its vulnerabilities, and explains to you exactly how to frustrate its objectives :
“RVR is not pulling through the amount of freight it had initially planned for, but new demand is perhaps why Qalaa is confident about the upside.”
You can extract from this brief sentence that anything which would impede the ability of RVR to accommodate increased demand, anything that would negatively impact their capacity to meet Qalaa’s expectations, will be a blow to Qalaa’s investors, and frustrate their neoliberal objectives.
There are obviously many ways to disrupt freight trains.
http://www.theafricareport.com/North-Africa/egypts-qalaa-backs-east-africas-railway-line.html
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