Al -Jazeera Net Correspondents
Khartoum- The suspended bridges city, so some of the people of Khartoum were given this name at their city, while these bridges were the first to be affected by the war that broke out on April 15, 2023.
It was a bridge Shambat link between Omdurman You may destroy On November 11, 2023, Then Jabal Awlia bridge a week after the first incident, before damaging the Halfaya Bridge linking Omdurman and Khartoum Bahri on the first of July 2024.
The transportation sector was damaged by the war that approached the two years; Where a number of main roads in the capital, Khartoum Wood Madani, are destroyed by Al -Jazeera State, Khartoum International Airport, the land port, Dr. Madani and other other units of the Sudanese Ministry of Transport.
Damage
The Ministry published, in a press conference of the Sudanese government, on the losses of the transportation sector and the reconstruction plans, a short film that clarified the damage to the transportation sector; Where the scenes filmed a station and a railway hall and a civilian and the war referred it to destroyed remains, and the film also presented the chaos that prevailed in Khartoum Airport and how the fighting referred some of its parts to rubble.
The Ministry of Transport is formed, According to its officials, Of companies and units, including railways, Sudan Line, the Nile Transport Company for River, the Maritime Ports Authority, Sudanese Airlines, as well as land transport, the Sudanese River Transport Company, the Nile Valley for Maritime Transport, and others.
The Minister of Transport Abu Bakr Abu al -Qasim said that the initial estimates of the losses of the transport sector are estimated at about two billion and 700 million dollars due to the current war, and that they are now working on re -evaluation to come out with the total losses of the sector in Sudan.
Airlines (Tarko) was estimated at about 100 million dollars, as indicated by the Minister of Culture and Information and the spokesperson for the Sudanese government, Khaled Al -Esir, who said that “the Rapid Support Militia destroyed 6 Boeing planes owned by Tarko, and a 3 -storey building for the catering of the aircraft affiliated with this company.”
And he added that “all the fleet of Tarko Air Company, which is estimated at about 80 cars, was stolen, and that the militia has stolen aircraft stores that follow this company with up to 15 million dollars.”
Strong losses
In response to Al -Jazeera Net question about the total losses of Khartoum International Airport, the Minister of Transport Abu Bakr Abu Al -Qasim described it as “the huge”, and indicated that it is to destroy the airport’s infrastructure and aircraft affiliated with various airlines, and fuel warehouses.
Meanwhile, the director of the “Sudanir” company, Mazen Al -Awad, explained that the company lost all its property in the capital, Khartoum, as a result of the war, and that they now have one plane, but they plan to add a number of them to Sudanese Airlines.
The priority of the Sudanese government and the Ministry of Transport is now the return of Sudanese refugees abroad to the country by coordinating between land transport rooms and the Ministry to facilitate the voluntary return of citizens who want to return.
Private sources told Al -Jazeera Net that during the past two days, the Egyptian crossings witnessed the return of Sudanese citizens on board 20 buses, with an estimated one thousand Sudanese refugees.
rehabilitation
The Minister of Transport stated that the ministry is now working to rehabilitate some of the methods that were affected by the war during the last period.
He stressed that the Kuwaiti Fund ensures that 700 thousand Kuwaiti dinars (the dinar equals 3.25 dollars) for the purpose of studying the iron bond between Sudan and Egypt via the railway, and the ministry is currently trying to return the railway that passes through Port Sudan, Haya, Kasla, and Sennar after it was completely removed, and that they started trying to return the Sudanese marine lines (Sudan Line) again.
For his part, the journalist and political analyst, Taher Idris, believes that the efforts of the Ministry of Transport must go in the future towards reconstruction as a first plan, “due to the systematic destruction of the transport sector in Sudan, such as the rest of the areas affected by the current war, followed by interest in marine and air lines, and then the rehabilitation operations are completed for the whole sector.”
Idris told Al -Jazeera Net that the rehabilitation of the transportation sector “casts a large burden on the Sudanese government and must be a priority for its importance in people’s lives and in development in other sectors.”
He believes that the government can benefit from the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank and some countries such as China Russia to contribute to this process.
According to Idris, the government’s efforts must focus during the coming period on this sector, specifically air, land and sea transportation, “because the construction process in which the country must be involved does not come only through it.”
