Transport in Burkina Faso

[4] Nevertheless, "trucking cartels and red tape contribute to high transportation costs and diminished international competitiveness.

As of June 2014 Sitarail operates a passenger train three times a week along the route from Ouagadougou to Abidjan via Banfora, Bobo-Dioulasso and Koudougou.

Instability in Ivory Coast in 2003 forced a rerouting of rail freight from the Abidjan corridor to ports in Togo, Benin, and Ghana via the road network.

[12] Burkina Faso and Ghana use different rail gauges and this break-of-gauge can be overcome to a greater or lesser extent with a number of methods.

[13] In 2006, an Indian proposal surfaced to link the railways in Benin and Togo with landlocked Niger and Burkina Faso.

[4] The following towns of Burkina Faso are served by the country's railways: This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook.