Friday, September 11, 2015

Kenya’s Chinese-Built Railway Seen Opening to Traffic in Mid-2017




Reuters, 11/09 17:58 CET

By Edith Honan

NAIROBI (Reuters) – The tracks for a new, faster railway linking the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to Kenya’s capital will be laid by the end of 2016 and will open for commercial traffic on target in June 2017, the chairman of Kenya Railways said on Friday.

The Chinese-financed project is the first stage in a scheme that aims to extend to Uganda and other land-locked states. The goal is to cut the cost of transport and boost trade, by replacing a narrow-gauge line that has slower top speeds.

“We’re ahead of schedule,” Kenya Railways managing director Atanas Maina said in Nairobi. “There’s government commitment, there’s been 

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Source: Euronews 

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