Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

ichoboy01 said:
Umeona kitu inafanywa huwezi pata Africa nzima over 3km train ya umeme ya mizigo inapita chini kwa chini mpaka inatokezea dar port 😂😂😂😂View attachment 3083494View attachment 3083495View attachment 3083496View attachment 3083497
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Ni 👆 👆 kama mtaro ya kupeleka maji taka hehehe.., yaani haiwezi kubeba double stalk.., mko hovyo! such tunnels are suitable for passenger trains, viongozi wenu wanaacha wapi akili zao wakati wana plan such??.., ikija SGR line hadi ndani ya port, yaani mizigo inatoka kwa meli direct kwa SGR,., nyie bado sana, mnajenga hadi waleo, miaka zaidi ya saba, kisha mmejenga kifala sana.., tunnel!

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coodip1 said:
Rudi hapa 👇 uelewe mchakato ulipoanzia usirukie vitu ambavyo hujui.

Railways

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Ungejielimisha ujue who was the brain behind SGR, and floated the idea to EAC.,ila kwa upumbavu wako umekurupuka tu kama ilivyo kawaida yenu, ata hiyo article haukusoma, it does not even discuss the brains behind the idea of SGR and who pushed it., sio Tanzania, Tanzania taifa lizembe aliona Kenya na yeye akakurupuka, idiots as usual!
 

Why Kenya is fast losing regional transit logistics control to Tanzania​


George Wachira
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Thursday, August 29, 2024 - 3 min read

Trucks waiting to leave the port of Mombasa after collecting cargo.
File | Nation Media Group

By George Wachira
Petroleum consultant

I estimate that in another decade, the Central corridor through Tanzania will be the dominant regional transit route, having overtaken Mombasa based Northen corridor.

The shift started when the 2007/08 electoral disturbances in Kenya significantly disrupted movement of imports and exports through Kenya, prompting Uganda, Rwanda, and DRC to develop alternative transit capacity through Dar Es Salaam.

Tanzania had already modernised the main highway from Dar to Mwanza, Bukoba and also to Rwanda border permitting smooth road haulage.


With only one border crossing, high-quality highways, lower transit time and costs, Rwanda decided to shift most of its petroleum and other imports from Kenya to Dar. Uganda similarly started using Dar as an alternative import route via Mwanza and around the Lake through Mutukula.

Tanzania has been quick in embracing modern electric driven SGR and a modernised Dar port as long-term strategies to modernise Central Corridor infrastructure with outreach to Rwanda, Burundi, DRC and Uganda.

The SGR has already reached the capital Dodoma on its way to Mwanza and Kigoma with planned future extensions to Rwanda and Burundi providing easy access to DRC.

The next game-changing opportunity that Tanzania grabbed was the crude oil export pipeline project from western Uganda through Tanzania. Kenya had wrongly believed that Uganda had no option but to use the Lappset transit route through Lamu.

Kenya inadvertently refused to consider the more secure alternative route proposed by Uganda to use existing Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) wayleave all the way to Mombasa, with a pipeline branch from Turkana joining at Eldoret.

The joint pact to jointly implement and own the crude oil pipeline has opened up major economic and diplomatic cooperation opportunities between Uganda and Tanzania. Already massive FDIs, skills development and jobs for the two countries are happening.

A road transit conduit from Dar through Mutukula border point into Uganda and Eastern DRC is already happening. With deep economic cooperation between Uganda and Tanzania, the recent decision by Uganda to shift a fraction of oil imports from Kenya to Dar was an easy one.

It is not too late for Kenya to revert to sustainable long term infrastructure planning and implementation.
On the minimum we need to extend SGR and oil pipeline to Malaba. We should also ensure we control South Sudan transit trade by focusing on enhancing transit security through Turkana.

Lappset highway infrastructure should be completed to secure Southern Ethiopia and South Sudan trade. Turkana oil should be commercialized without further delay. Finally, we should manage our political decorum to minimize disruptive violence.

George Wachira, energy consultant , wachira@petroleumfocus.com

www.businessdailyafrica.com

Why Kenya is fast losing regional transit logistics control to Tanzania

Tanzania has been quick in embracing modern electric driven SGR and a modernised Dar port.
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Complete struggling historical projects to deliver economic value​


George Wachira
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Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 3 min read

Works going on at Lapsset project in Lamu.
File | Nation Media Group

By George Wachira
Petroleum consultant

Over the past 15 years, a number of high-impact economic projects and plans were launched, then partially implemented or abandoned by successive governments, mostly due to development re-prioritisation.

In nearly all cases, the country has missed or delayed economic opportunities promised by the projects. There was the multi-component Mwai Kibaki legacy LAPSSET corridor project of which the Jubilee government prioritised the implementation of three berths of Lamu Port. The Kenya Kwanza administration's efforts to complete the highway initially from Lamu to Garissa are handicapped by insecurity.

Only a completed highway all the way from Lamu to north-western Kenya through Samburu and Turkana counties and beyond into South Sudan will unlock the envisaged LAPSSET socio-economic benefits. A completed highway will open up the northern half of Kenya, strengthen security management, and secure social economic development while opening up enormous mining opportunities in northern counties.


The stalled Turkana oil project with a 100,000 barrels per day production potential has significant economic value at a time when Kenya continues to import all its oil. The Jubilee government evidently lost focus on Turkana oil during its second term, and there is no strong indication that it is a priority project for Kenya Kwanza. Kenya needs creative ways of commercialising the oil without Tullow Oil.

The standard gauge railway (SGR) project implemented by the Jubilee government was meant to stretch from Mombasa all the way to Uganda and beyond, a business model that was disrupted when the line terminated at Naivasha. The Kenya Kwanza government has indicated that it will pursue SGR extension to Uganda. Only when this is achieved will SGR become a dominant regional economic driver.

A comprehensive mining masterplan started by the Jubilee government lost focus along the way and it is only recently that Kenya Kwanza has brought it back into the limelight. Also derailed was the dream to make Kitui County a mining and industrial hub with its known deposits of coal, iron ore and limestone deposits. Mining should be made an anchor production sector to boost Kenya’s GDP, for indeed mining has the highest capacity to attract FDIs, especially for critical energy and technology minerals.

Finally, credit goes to Kenya Kwanza for moving fast to rejuvenate the Konza high-tech project, which was started during President Kibaki's time, but relegated to low priority by Jubilee. The project and its associated Open University will open up new opportunities in a fast-expanding ICT sector.

The writer is a petroleum consultant. wachira@petroleumfocus.com

www.businessdailyafrica.com

Complete struggling historical projects to deliver economic value

Over the past 15 years, a number of high-impact economic projects and plans were launched, then partially implemented or abandoned by successive governments, mostly due to development...
www.businessdailyafrica.com www.businessdailyafrica.com
 
Mkwanzania said:
Mbona sasa hivi ujenzi unachukua muda sana with all these modern equipments?
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Pesa nadhani, kulipa mkandarasi kwa wakati taabu, ila JPM aliwahi waambia wakandarasi alipokua waziri wa ujenzi mlikua mnalalamika pesa inachelewa now ni RAISI nione kisingizio no wonder muda wake miradi ilikua ni chap chap.

Naamini mkandarasi akisimamiwa vizuri na kulipwa kwa wakati kazi inaisha kabisa bila Tatizo.

Ukute hapo zamani vilikua very important na very urgent needed ndio maana mkandarasi alikua muda wote yupo site plus kulipwa kwa wakati ukiongeza na Uongozi uliokuwapo NYERERE lazima viwe fasta.

Nowdays CHINA ndio anafanyaga vitu fasta hata Huko USA malalamiko ni mengi.
 
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