Rwanda lauds Kenya's SGR progress, cuts a Sh124bn deal with China for own line

[mwitaz]

Rwanda has reaffirmed its commitment to the construction of the 2,000 kilometres-Northern Corridor Standard Gauge Railway line between Kigali and Mombasa, challenging its regional partners to speed up the work.
High Commissioner to Kenya James Kimonyo yesterday said his government is in the final stage of talks with China’s Export-Import Bank for a $1.2 billion (Sh123.5 billion) loan to fund the Rwandan section, which could begin
“We are getting ready to start as Kenya does its part and Uganda engages financiers from China. We have done a feasibility study and will begin soon after finalising talks with the Exim bank and other partners,” Kimonyo said in Nairobi, during this year’s Kenya-Rwanda business forum.
“We want Uganda to move with the same speed as Kenya.”
The new development is a boost to the Kenya’s SGR project, whose viability had been threatened by Uganda’s earlier threats to bolt out of a joint venture on the project. Rwanda was also reported to have chosen to re-route its standard gauge railway from the Uganda- Kenya line, and instead favoured a Tanzania route to Dar es Salaam.
He said Rwanda remains committed to regional integration, including developing the Kigali-Kampala-Eldoret refined petroleum pipeline, which will extend the existing comprehensive multi-product system within Kenya.
“We remain committed to ensure SGR and other infrastructure projects along the Northern Corridor works effectively,” Kimonyo said, calling on investors to fund projects and invest in the country, currently ranked first in the ease of doing business in East Africa by the World Bank.
Uncertainty on the SGR in the neighbouring countries had sent jitters in Kenya raising questions over its viability.
However, the financier of both the Kenyan and Ugandan lines, Exim Bank, is understood to have laid down conditions that two must appoint one operator to carry out maintenance work between Mombasa and Kampala, for the bank to consider any financing, according to Kenya Railways managing director Atanas Maina.
Uganda is negotiating a $2.3 billion (about Sh236.7 billion) loan with Exim Bank to fund an initial 273 kilometre track, linking Kampala to Kenya’s border town of Malaba.
The construction to be carried out by China Harbour Engineering Company is expected to take 40 months.
Kenya’s Sh327 billion-472 kilometresMombasa-Nairobi line was 98 per cent complete in December, according to Transport CS James Macharia.
The Kenya Railways Corporation has received 210 wagons so far out of a total of 1,620 that were ordered for the route.
Treasury secretary Henry Rotich is expected to fly to China to negotiate for more loans to build the Naivasha-Kisumu-Malaba line.
Kenya started test rides on the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR this month to ensure optimum performance once full operations begin in June.A test run on March 8 took two hours from Nairobi to Mtito Andei.

source:- Rwanda lauds Kenya's SGR progress, cuts a Sh124bn deal with China for own line

 

[3rd man]

Rwanda has reaffirmed its commitment to the construction of the 2,000 kilometres-Northern Corridor Standard Gauge Railway line between Kigali and Mombasa, challenging its regional partners to speed up the work.
High Commissioner to Kenya James Kimonyo yesterday said his government is in the final stage of talks with China’s Export-Import Bank for a $1.2 billion (Sh123.5 billion) loan to fund the Rwandan section, which could begin
“We are getting ready to start as Kenya does its part and Uganda engages financiers from China. We have done a feasibility study and will begin soon after finalising talks with the Exim bank and other partners,” Kimonyo said in Nairobi, during this year’s Kenya-Rwanda business forum.
“We want Uganda to move with the same speed as Kenya.”
The new development is a boost to the Kenya’s SGR project, whose viability had been threatened by Uganda’s earlier threats to bolt out of a joint venture on the project. Rwanda was also reported to have chosen to re-route its standard gauge railway from the Uganda- Kenya line, and instead favoured a Tanzania route to Dar es Salaam.
He said Rwanda remains committed to regional integration, including developing the Kigali-Kampala-Eldoret refined petroleum pipeline, which will extend the existing comprehensive multi-product system within Kenya.
“We remain committed to ensure SGR and other infrastructure projects along the Northern Corridor works effectively,” Kimonyo said, calling on investors to fund projects and invest in the country, currently ranked first in the ease of doing business in East Africa by the World Bank.
Uncertainty on the SGR in the neighbouring countries had sent jitters in Kenya raising questions over its viability.
However, the financier of both the Kenyan and Ugandan lines, Exim Bank, is understood to have laid down conditions that two must appoint one operator to carry out maintenance work between Mombasa and Kampala, for the bank to consider any financing, according to Kenya Railways managing director Atanas Maina.
Uganda is negotiating a $2.3 billion (about Sh236.7 billion) loan with Exim Bank to fund an initial 273 kilometre track, linking Kampala to Kenya’s border town of Malaba.
The construction to be carried out by China Harbour Engineering Company is expected to take 40 months.
Kenya’s Sh327 billion-472 kilometresMombasa-Nairobi line was 98 per cent complete in December, according to Transport CS James Macharia.
The Kenya Railways Corporation has received 210 wagons so far out of a total of 1,620 that were ordered for the route.
Treasury secretary Henry Rotich is expected to fly to China to negotiate for more loans to build the Naivasha-Kisumu-Malaba line.
Kenya started test rides on the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR this month to ensure optimum performance once full operations begin in June.A test run on March 8 took two hours from Nairobi to Mtito Andei.

source:- Rwanda lauds Kenya's SGR progress, cuts a Sh124bn deal with China for own line

humu huwezi waona mazombie

 

[Jay456watt]

where are the bongolalas?

 

[Mhe McAmacy]

waje waje twawasubiri....

 

[Kituko]

where are the bongolalas?

Nyangau hiyo SGR inaanza kujengwa lini?, hii ni East Africa kaka, usichinje ng'ombe kushehereka kama lile bomba la Mafuta la Uganda mwisho ukachanganyikiwa

Subiri ujenzi uanze kaka

 

[MK254]

Nyangau hiyo SGR inaanza kujengwa lini?, hii ni East Africa kaka, usichinje ng'ombe kushehereka kama lile bomba la Mafuta la Uganda mwisho ukachanganyikiwa

Subiri ujenzi uanze kaka

Nakumbuka hapo awali mlimshobokea Kagame na kumpa uongozi wa kufanikisha reli yenu....
Haya mambo hufanywa kimahesabu, reli yetu imekatiza na kuchana mbuga, muda usio mrefu tutakua tunabisha hodi kwa Museveni.
Bomba la mafuta iliwabidi muachie kila kitu, juzi Museveni amekuja kuwabwekea baada ya nyie kuthubutu kuhoji maana mahesabu yenu hayajakaa sawa, inawezekana mkaliwa na Museveni kama jinsi huwa mnatafunwa kwenye migodi na raslimali nyingine zote. Hii ni biashara sio yale yenu ya ujamaa...

 

[Kituko]

Nakumbuka hapo awali mlimshobokea Kagame na kumpa uongozi wa kufanikisha reli yenu....
Haya mambo hufanywa kimahesabu, reli yetu imekatiza na kuchana mbuga, muda usio mrefu tutakua tunabisha hodi kwa Museveni.
Bomba la mafuta iliwabidi muachie kila kitu, juzi Museveni amekuja kuwabwekea baada ya nyie kuthubutu kuhoji maana mahesabu yenu hayajakaa sawa, inawezekana mkaliwa na Museveni kama jinsi huwa mnatafunwa kwenye migodi na raslimali nyingine zote. Hii ni biashara sio yale yenu ya ujamaa...

Kaka sio kweli, na nyie Manyang'au mnakuwa wagumu sana kuelewa siasa za Africa Mashariki, mnajaribu kulazimisha kila siku sasa hizo zama zimeisha, we subiri kwanza hiyo rail ijengwe ndio uje humu kushangilia, ile CoW iliishia wapi?, kuhusu hiyo hiyo Rail Waganda wanasemaje?

Cha pili ukae ukijua kujenga rail ni kimoja na kuitumia ni Kingine, wana East Africa imesha wastukia na mtatapatapa sana, yaani Kagame kuongea kama ataijenga hiyo wala na wala sio Habari mpya Tayari mko kwenye sherehe maana mlijiona mmeshatengwa

Hivi unaijua Bahima Empire?

 

[Geza Ulole]

Hoax the Star lacks credibility

 

[Msolo]

humu huwezi waona mazombie

Kulikuwa na maana gani ku-quote uzi wote na kutoa comment ya kijinga?

 

[Tabutupu]

waturuki wapo wapi?

 

[MK254]

Kaka sio kweli, na nyie Manyang'au mnakuwa wagumu sana kuelewa siasa za Africa Mashariki, mnajaribu kulazimisha kila siku sasa hizo zama zimeisha, we subiri kwanza hiyo rail ijengwe ndio uje humu kushangilia, ile CoW iliishia wapi?, kuhusu hiyo hiyo Rail Waganda wanasemaje?

Cha pili ukae ukijua kujenga rail ni kimoja na kuitumia ni Kingine, wana East Africa imesha wastukia na mtatapatapa sana, yaani Kagame kuongea kama ataijenga hiyo wala na wala sio Habari mpya Tayari mko kwenye sherehe maana mlijiona mmeshatengwa

Hivi unaijua Bahima Empire?

Kainchi ketu kadogo na nusu yake kame tupu lakini tunaongoza ukanda wote wa Afrika mashariki na kati kwa kila kitu, uongozi huu tumeupata kwa sababu tunajua jinsi ya kulazimisha mambo, jinsi ya kuwaburuza kwa pua.
Sisi ni manyang'au na washindi katika kila kitu.
La bomba tuliwaachia maana mlikubali kutafunwa na Museveni hadi mifupa.

Leo hii tunawapa ushindani kwa nchi kama Burundi na Rwanda ambao hatupo nao kwenye mpaka mmoja. Wapo mbali sana na sisi na ni majirani zenu lakini kwasababu nyie ni wazembe wa kutupwa mumeshindwa kuchangamkia fursa hizo ipasavyo.

 

[3rd man]

waturuki wapo wapi?

waturuki hawana ubavu kama mchina,mkulu anaendeleza uganga wake tu.

 

[1academ]

Rwanda: Poor Collaboration Is Hindering Regional Railway Project - Report

13 MARCH 2017
The New Times (Kigali) »

Rwanda: Poor Collaboration Is Hindering Regional Railway Project - Report


By James Karuhanga
Regional lawmakers have called for more collaboration on the construction of the standard gauge railway (SGR) in the East African Community.
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) said there is no need for countries to withhold information from each other about the project. The issue came up last week as the regional legislators received a report by the committee on Communication, Trade and Investment after its oversight activity on railway infrastructure development in the region.

MP Fred Mukasa Mbidde, (Uganda) the committee chairperson, said there is no information sharing about SGR, especially on the timelines by partner states.
"Construction of the railway among partner states is at different levels. Whereas some partner states are in advanced stages, others are still lagging behind," Mbidde said.

"It was also observed that there is minimal collaboration between the regional railway projects on the Central and Northern Corridors."
As provided for under the EAC Treaty, countries agreed to establish and maintain co-ordinated railway services that would efficiently connect the partner states and, where necessary, to construct additional railway connections.


The committee recommended that partner states set aside annual budgets to sustainably fund the implementation of railway projects in the region, and that the Community should create a regional infrastructure fund.
It further recommended that railway projects on the Central and Northern corridors complement each other in terms of sharing information, skills and expertise.


The regional lawmakers also advised that training schools for railway technology be established, in addition to improving on already existing ones to enhance skills and expertise in the region.
Joint efforts

To develop the region, Uganda's second deputy prime minister and minister for EAC affairs, Kirunda Kivejinja, who represented the Council of Ministers, said complementarity is the way to go as opposed to competition among countries. He said "the question" as presented by the committee was accurate.

"There is a general worry that there hasn't been coordination. Secondly, they [countries] are negotiating individually and therefore not benefiting collectively. Last time we learnt that President Magufuli has been able to negotiate a similar standard gauge railway at $1.5 million per kilometre while the other one in the Northern Corridor is $7 million per kilometre," Kivejinja told The New Times.

Kenyatta wewe jenga hadi mipakani yao malaba, lokichogio na moyale kwa wahabeshi baada ya hapo watajua wenyewe.

 

[1academ]

Leo siku ya nondo tuuu!!, cheki gazeti la kagame linavombeza magu, ila alisema atatumia eti wafungwa kuijenga dahh!!

Beware of cheap rail projects

Beware of cheap rail projects

By: SETH
PUBLISHED: March 14, 2017

Editor,

Last time we learned that President (John) Magufuli (of Tanzania) has been able to negotiate a similar standard gauge railroad at $1.5 million per kilometre.

Dear EALA MPs, it is too early to conclude that Tanzania got a better deal. There is no way you can finance the construction of a one-kilometre Standard Gauge railroad for $1.5 million. Just imagine the cost of the steel rails alone, and without even including the cost of cement, rocks, excavation and labour.

I am not a civil engineer but common sense tells me that the Tanzania deal will end up being so bad that their railway will be of poor quality, very dangerous and more costly in the long run.

 

[3rd man]

Kagame anamshuku xana ********...jamaa anataka vitu vya bwerere.​

Leo siku ya nondo tuuu!!, cheki gazeti la kagame linavombeza magu, ila alisema atatumia eti wafungwa kuijenga dahh!!

Beware of cheap rail projects

Beware of cheap rail projects

By: SETH
PUBLISHED: March 14, 2017

Editor,

Last time we learned that President (John) Magufuli (of Tanzania) has been able to negotiate a similar standard gauge railroad at $1.5 million per kilometre.

Dear EALA MPs, it is too early to conclude that Tanzania got a better deal. There is no way you can finance the construction of a one-kilometre Standard Gauge railroad for $1.5 million. Just imagine the cost of the steel rails alone, and without even including the cost of cement, rocks, excavation and labour.

I am not a civil engineer but common sense tells me that the Tanzania deal will end up being so bad that their railway will be of poor quality, very dangerous and more costly in the long run.

 

[mtanzania1989]

Naona panic button has been pressed, Kenya mmeamua muanze propaganda war tena kwa ajili ya SGR baada ya kuona na kwenye SGR mnapokonywa tonge mdomoni. Magu ni mafia, amewapokonya deal la pipeline na hili la SGR anaenda kushinda yeye, once ujenzi wa port ktk ziwa Victoria ukianza ujue kwishney hiyo.

Hakuna bank itayokubali kutoa pesa yake kwa ajili ya Malaba - Kampala wakati wanajua iko overpriced na ina stiff competition kutoka Tz, ufisadi wenu ndio unaoenda kiwapotezea hili deal.

 

[3rd man]

Mm

Naona panic button has been pressed, Kenya mmeamua muanze propaganda war tena kwa ajili ya SGR baada ya kuona na kwenye SGR mnapokonywa tonge mdomoni. Magu ni mafia, amewapokonya deal la pipeline na hili la SGR anaenda kushinda yeye, once ujenzi wa port ktk ziwa Victoria ukianza ujue kwishney hiyo.

Hakuna bank itayokubali kutoa pesa yake kwa ajili ya Malaba - Kampala wakati wanajua iko overpriced na ina stiff competition kutoka Tz, ufisadi wenu ndio unaoenda kiwapotezea hili deal.[/QUOTE mwaka gani hivi....

 

[Edward Wanjala]

This is what differentiate visionery leaders and noise makers, Paul Kagame, is bent on changing Rwanda and for real he will. He knows time that will be needed if he is to wait for Tanzania which by 2013, it had done visibility studies and track mapping by a Kenyan firm

Naona panic button has been pressed, Kenya mmeamua muanze propaganda war tena kwa ajili ya SGR baada ya kuona na kwenye SGR mnapokonywa tonge mdomoni. Magu ni mafia, amewapokonya deal la pipeline na hili la SGR anaenda kushinda yeye, once ujenzi wa port ktk ziwa Victoria ukianza ujue kwishney hiyo.

Hakuna bank itayokubali kutoa pesa yake kwa ajili ya Malaba - Kampala wakati wanajua iko overpriced na ina stiff competition kutoka Tz, ufisadi wenu ndio unaoenda kiwapotezea hili deal.

Mimi naona Magu ataweza jenga Hiyo SGR kwa zile hela.

Ila ni moja tu, kwa hizo hela, hazitakuwa na tofauti sana na zile za sahi za Tazara za kuvuka moshi, ama aache tu, maana hiyo si bei ya reli ya kisasa popote, ama barabara lami

 

[iJamii]

where are the bongolalas?

Sie tupo busy kufikiria jinsi ya kumkamata Mange Kimangi kwa kuvujisha siri za serikali yetu tukufu.

 

[Jay456watt]

Sie tupo busy kufikiria jinsi ya kumkamata Mange Kimangi kwa kuvujisha siri za serikali yetu tukufu.