The government of Papua New Guinea is currently working on plans for the country’s first major railway line. The line is planned to start in Lae and run via Markham, Ramu and the East Sepik plains to Vanimo. This is supposed to support plans to increase agricultural production in the area. The plans are being created by the Department of Transport together with Kumul Consolidated Holdings, the management company for the government’s non-petroleum and non-mining assets. The project could be implemented as a public-private partnership (PPP). Papua New Guinea has never had a national railway network, although there have been at least 150 mining, industrial and plantation lines.
