Editing Transport in Sudan (section)

==Railways==
{{Main article|Rail transport in Sudan}}
[[File:Railways in Sudan.svg|thumb|Railways in Sudan]]

''Total:'' 7,251&nbsp;km<br />''Narrow gauge:'' 5,851&nbsp;km<br />''0.600m gauge:'' 1,400&nbsp;km (2014)<ref name=":2">{{Citation|title=Sudan|date=2021-11-16|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/sudan/#transportation|work=The World Factbook|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|language=en|access-date=2021-11-21}}</ref>

The main line runs from [[Port Sudan]] on the Sudanese coast to [[Khartoum]] via [[Atbara]]. A link also exists between [[Hayya, Sudan|Hayya]] and [[Sennar]] via [[Kassala]]. Other lines connect [[Ad-Damazin]] with [[Malakal]] in [[South Sudan]] and [[Nyala, South Darfur|Nyala]] with [[Geneina]] and [[al-Fashir]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2009 |title=Sudan Railways Corporation (SRC) |url=http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Data/Africa_file/Company/sudan05.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202015858/https://www.ide.go.jp/English/Data/Africa_file/Company/sudan05.html |archive-date=2 February 2017 |access-date=23 January 2017 |website=Institute of Developing Economies Japan External Trade Organization |publisher=JETRO}}</ref> Modest efforts to upgrade rail transport were reported to be underway in 2013<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Laessing |first=Ulf |date=2013-02-20 |title=Sudan eyes railway revival to help transform its economy |newspaper=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-railway-idUSBRE91J0QO20130220 |url-status=live |access-date=1 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202021005/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-railway-idUSBRE91J0QO20130220/ |archive-date=2 February 2017}}</ref> and 2015<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 April 2015 |title=Bashir vows to restore Sudan's railway network |url=http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article54512 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202005305/http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article54512 |archive-date=2 February 2017 |access-date=23 January 2017 |website=Sudan Tribune |publisher=Sudan Tribune |language=en}}</ref> to reverse decades of neglect and declining efficiency.

The main system, [[Sudan Railways]], which was operated by the government-owned [[Sudan Railways Corporation]] (SRC), provided services to most of the country's production and consumption centers.<ref name=":0" /> The other line, the [[Gezira Light Railway]], was owned by the [[Sudan Gezira Board]] and served the [[Gezira Scheme]] and its [[Manaqil Extension]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://lib.uofk.edu/multisites/UofK_lib/images/stories/libpdf/sudan_transport.pdf|title=Sudan Transport: A history of railway, marine and river services in the republic of the Sudan|last=Hill|first=Richard|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1965|pages=166–169|asin=B0000CMPMP|author-link=Richard Leslie Hill}}</ref> In 1959 the railways made up 40% of the Sudanese gross domestic product<ref name=":1" /> but by 2009 only 6% of Sudan's traffic was carried by rail<ref name=":0" /> and since the 1970s competition from  highways increased rapidly.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/27454/railroadtranspor423duej.pdf?sequence=1|title=Rail and Road Transport in Sudan|last=Due|first=John F.|publisher=University of Illinois - Urbana Champaigm|year=1977|location=Illinois,USA|pages=10}}</ref>