Uganda Needs Kenyan Go-Ahead for $2.3 Billion China Rail Funding Bloomberg

[Sammuel999]

China Eximbank will only provide funds if Kenya builds line

Hehehehe
geza and Band wagon mko wapi??

Unless Kenya build its Rail ndio Uganda Na Rwanda Wataweza pia They cant escape that unless they use another Type of Funding


Hehehe

Uganda, which wants to start building part of a multi-billion-dollar rail line to Kenya, must wait for its neighbor to decide on plans for its portion of the track before the project’s main funder makes money available, the country’s finance minister said.
Export-Import Bank of China will arrange financing for Uganda only when it’s sure that Kenya “is willing and able to extend its railway to the border, so that they don’t fund a white elephant,” Finance Minister Matia Kasaija said. Kenya has committed to the line, but wants to start building when it’s in a position to borrow more money, he said.
Eximbank will provide 85 percent of the $2.3 billion Uganda needs for the line, Kasingye Kyamugambi, the rail project’s coordinator in Uganda, said in February .
East African nations are trying to direct funds to infrastructure to help accelerate economic growth. The 273-kilometer (170-mile) standard-gauge line linking landlocked Uganda’s capital, Kampala, to Malaba on the Kenyan border will form part of a network that will eventually span 3,200 kilometers across the two nations, Rwanda, and possibly South Sudan.
China Eximbank in December agreed to lend Kenya $4.9 billion for the second leg of the new railway, linking the southern Kenyan town of Naivasha to Malaba. Trial runs on the first phase between the capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa start next month. The entire line in Kenya will cost $10.5 billion.
The World Bank estimates that China may FUND about 37 percent of Uganda’s investment program in the three years that end in June 2020. That’s around the time the country expects crude oil production to begin.

 

[MK254]

Baba wa EAC.

 

[Edward Wanjala]

China Eximbank will only provide funds if Kenya builds line

Hehehehe
geza and Band wagon mko wapi??

Unless Kenya build its Rail ndio Uganda Na Rwanda Wataweza pia They cant escape that unless they use another Type of Funding


Hehehe

Uganda, which wants to start building part of a multi-billion-dollar rail line to Kenya, must wait for its neighbor to decide on plans for its portion of the track before the project’s main funder makes money available, the country’s finance minister said.
Export-Import Bank of China will arrange financing for Uganda only when it’s sure that Kenya “is willing and able to extend its railway to the border, so that they don’t fund a white elephant,” Finance Minister Matia Kasaija said. Kenya has committed to the line, but wants to start building when it’s in a position to borrow more money, he said.
Eximbank will provide 85 percent of the $2.3 billion Uganda needs for the line, Kasingye Kyamugambi, the rail project’s coordinator in Uganda, said in February .
East African nations are trying to direct funds to infrastructure to help accelerate economic growth. The 273-kilometer (170-mile) standard-gauge line linking landlocked Uganda’s capital, Kampala, to Malaba on the Kenyan border will form part of a network that will eventually span 3,200 kilometers across the two nations, Rwanda, and possibly South Sudan.
China Eximbank in December agreed to lend Kenya $4.9 billion for the second leg of the new railway, linking the southern Kenyan town of Naivasha to Malaba. Trial runs on the first phase between the capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa start next month. The entire line in Kenya will cost $10.5 billion.
The World Bank estimates that China may FUND about 37 percent of Uganda’s investment program in the three years that end in June 2020. That’s around the time the country expects crude oil production to begin.

I think this report is a bit old considering the events so far! Now that Kenya has secured financing of Naivasha Kisumu Rail, Uhuru called Museveni and Kagame, to ask them for a joint meeting in China for the railway from Malaba to Kigali! With this, i believe things are on the roll.

My question, did i not hear, right here in JF that Uganda had gone the Tanzania route?? What happened to the plan or it was the usual Danganya toto that the people or Danganyika are always subjected to?

Was it Danganya toto just like how the PM of Ethiopia did to Magu??

 

[Mwanzi1]

Hii ni habari njema kwetu Tanzania, whoever gets there railway line first to Uganda and Rwanda wins the business. Sasa naona umuhimu wa ile reli na barabara inayokatisha katikati ya Serengeti.

 

[Jay456watt]

Walidhani Kenyatta ni mjinga..hehe...huyu jamaa huwa anacheka cheka na wao ila ana ideas zake chungu nzima ubongoni...Jamaa must have spoken to the Chinese pres about this...there is no escaping the Kenyan Railway!!!! I think Uganda must remove that idiotic dictator called Museveni from power..it is hard to work with such fools...

 

[Jay456watt]

South Sudan, Uganda markets are ours...tulichelewa kidogo kunyakua Ethiopia kwani pale ndio kuna pesa...a population of 100 Mil sio mchezo...

 

[Ndahani]

Baba wa EAC.

Anayefikiria amesimama aangalie asianguke

 

[Ndahani]

South Sudan, Uganda markets are ours...tulichelewa kidogo kunyakua Ethiopia kwani pale ndio kuna pesa...a population of 100 Mil sio mchezo...

Mtachelewa zaidi na zaidi...time will tell

 

[Jay456watt]

Mtachelewa zaidi na zaidi...time will tell

Tulichelewa kweli kupeleka SGR Ethiopia ila kuna LAPSETT ambayo itahakikisha tumenyakua soko hilo ...subiri wacha pupa...Kenya has a lot of potential...wakenya wajanja kwel kwel...si unawaona wakinyakua mpaka soko la Rwanda..hehe soko ambalo ukizingatia geografia ni soko la Tz kwani liko karibu na Dar kuliko Mombasa....Mmekuwa mkilala kweli na Kikwete ila sasa naona mmeshtuka kutoka usingizini na Rais Magu...if not for that, ungepata tz nzima inaagiza huduma kutoka bandari ya Mombasa...Kenyans are like magicians... wanajua sana kuwadangaya wajinga...usione Kenyatta ni kama ana roho nzuri sana wakati anapotuma salamu za rambirambi kwa Magu kila uchao, kisha anakuwa wa kwanza kutuma usaidizi Tz inapokumbwa na majanga...the guy has his own interests which you will see in time...mjanja kwel

 

[Geza Ulole]

China Eximbank will only provide funds if Kenya builds line

Hehehehe
geza and Band wagon mko wapi??

Unless Kenya build its Rail ndio Uganda Na Rwanda Wataweza pia They cant escape that unless they use another Type of Funding


Hehehe

Uganda, which wants to start building part of a multi-billion-dollar rail line to Kenya, must wait for its neighbor to decide on plans for its portion of the track before the project’s main funder makes money available, the country’s finance minister said.
Export-Import Bank of China will arrange financing for Uganda only when it’s sure that Kenya “is willing and able to extend its railway to the border, so that they don’t fund a white elephant,” Finance Minister Matia Kasaija said. Kenya has committed to the line, but wants to start building when it’s in a position to borrow more money, he said.
Eximbank will provide 85 percent of the $2.3 billion Uganda needs for the line, Kasingye Kyamugambi, the rail project’s coordinator in Uganda, said in February .
East African nations are trying to direct funds to infrastructure to help accelerate economic growth. The 273-kilometer (170-mile) standard-gauge line linking landlocked Uganda’s capital, Kampala, to Malaba on the Kenyan border will form part of a network that will eventually span 3,200 kilometers across the two nations, Rwanda, and possibly South Sudan.
China Eximbank in December agreed to lend Kenya $4.9 billion for the second leg of the new railway, linking the southern Kenyan town of Naivasha to Malaba. Trial runs on the first phase between the capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa start next month. The entire line in Kenya will cost $10.5 billion.
The World Bank estimates that China may FUND about 37 percent of Uganda’s investment program in the three years that end in June 2020. That’s around the time the country expects crude oil production to begin.

Tanzania Option
If the Kenyan route to the Indian Ocean is delayed, Uganda may decide to develop an alternative track through Tanzania to the same coastline, according to Kasaija, who spoke in an interview Tuesday in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.

That would involve Uganda building a standard-gauge track from Kampala to Lake Victoria and a new port, connecting to similar infrastructure on the Tanzanian side, Kasaija said. German lender KfW will fund the harbor’s construction, he said.

“Uganda has a choice to go with whoever gives us a quick answer to our aspirations,” Kasaija said. “We plan to ultimately develop both.”

The country is increasingly borrowing to fund its infrastructure projects, which may raise public debt to 44 percent of gross domestic product in 2020-21, from 35 percent in 2015-16, the International Monetary Fund said in March.

Uganda Needs Kenya Go-Ahead for $2.3 Billion China Rail Cash

Be worried of that red paragraph as that port in Uganda is already U/C

 

[Geza Ulole]

Uganda to team up with Tanzania on standard gauge railway project?
www.ippmedia.com/en/news/uganda-team-tanzania-standard-gauge-railway-project


The officials are expected to table before the Ugandan leader a comparative cost analysis of Uganda’s SGR project in relation to Kenya and Tanzania’s costs.

They will also brief him on the progress of various infrastructure projects, particularly upgrading the Lake Victoria ports of Bukasa, Port Bell and Jinja that are meant to connect Uganda to the southern corridor via Musoma to Tanga, and the central corridor via Mwanza/Bukoba to Dar es Salaam.

Reports say the officials were literally thrown into a panic after Museveni was told on a recent visit to Tanzania that that country’s planned SGR line was to cost significantly lower per kilometer than Uganda’s.

According to works minister Monica Azuba, the plan to work with Kenya on the Ugandan SGR is “still on course”, although the government is “exploring alternatives”.

Said Azuba: “We are still working with Kenya. The president only expressed concern over the delay in extending the line from Nairobi to Malaba to Kampala. The Tanzanians also claimed they got theirs (railway) cheaper, and we are looking into that.”

Cost of rails

In Tanzania, Museveni was reportedly told, every kilometre of rail will cost Tanzania $1.5 million, while Uganda’s is set to cost $7.3 million per kilometre.

The contract for the first phase of Uganda’s SGR to link Kampala and Malaba on the border with Kenya at a cost of $2.8 billion was awarded to the China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC).

According to available cost projections, Uganda will buy a ton of cement at $180 and steel at $700, while Tanzania will spend $100 and $680 on cement and steel, respectively.

Uganda’s Daily Monitor reports that Ugandan officials also travelled to Tanzania on a benchmarking mission, the results of which are expected to be tabled before Museveni this week.

Museveni’s interest in the Tanzanian route was whetted by Tanzania’s proposal to prioritise the 1,219-kilometre SGR line from Dar es Salaam to the port of Mwanza on Lake Victoria – just across from Uganda, the reports say.

Inland water transport between Tanzanian, Kenyan, and Ugandan ports on Lake Victoria have broken down for almost a decade now, but the hope is that by developing inland ports in Uganda, it can be revived.

The Ugandan SGR construction is tentatively set to begin this year with the view of linking up with the Kenyan SGR to the Indian Ocean coast.

The line from Mombasa port to Nairobi is already complete, and Kenya is expected to embark on the rest of the line westwards to Malaba at about the same time that Uganda starts its own SGR project.

But with the financing details for the SGR still not yet concretised between Uganda and China, and in light of a of seemingly cheaper alternative of just developing inland ports and banking on Tanzania’s SGR in the short and medium term, Museveni’s meeting with the officials could come up with a landmark decision.

Last year, Uganda snubbed Kenya and opted for the Tanzanian route for the construction of a planned crude oil export pipeline.

 

[Jay456watt]

Uganda to team up with Tanzania on standard gauge railway project?
www.ippmedia.com/en/news/uganda-team-tanzania-standard-gauge-railway-project


The officials are expected to table before the Ugandan leader a comparative cost analysis of Uganda’s SGR project in relation to Kenya and Tanzania’s costs.

They will also brief him on the progress of various infrastructure projects, particularly upgrading the Lake Victoria ports of Bukasa, Port Bell and Jinja that are meant to connect Uganda to the southern corridor via Musoma to Tanga, and the central corridor via Mwanza/Bukoba to Dar es Salaam.

Reports say the officials were literally thrown into a panic after Museveni was told on a recent visit to Tanzania that that country’s planned SGR line was to cost significantly lower per kilometer than Uganda’s.

According to works minister Monica Azuba, the plan to work with Kenya on the Ugandan SGR is “still on course”, although the government is “exploring alternatives”.

Said Azuba: “We are still working with Kenya. The president only expressed concern over the delay in extending the line from Nairobi to Malaba to Kampala. The Tanzanians also claimed they got theirs (railway) cheaper, and we are looking into that.”

Cost of rails

In Tanzania, Museveni was reportedly told, every kilometre of rail will cost Tanzania $1.5 million, while Uganda’s is set to cost $7.3 million per kilometre.

The contract for the first phase of Uganda’s SGR to link Kampala and Malaba on the border with Kenya at a cost of $2.8 billion was awarded to the China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC).

According to available cost projections, Uganda will buy a ton of cement at $180 and steel at $700, while Tanzania will spend $100 and $680 on cement and steel, respectively.

Uganda’s Daily Monitor reports that Ugandan officials also travelled to Tanzania on a benchmarking mission, the results of which are expected to be tabled before Museveni this week.

Museveni’s interest in the Tanzanian route was whetted by Tanzania’s proposal to prioritise the 1,219-kilometre SGR line from Dar es Salaam to the port of Mwanza on Lake Victoria – just across from Uganda, the reports say.

Inland water transport between Tanzanian, Kenyan, and Ugandan ports on Lake Victoria have broken down for almost a decade now, but the hope is that by developing inland ports in Uganda, it can be revived.

The Ugandan SGR construction is tentatively set to begin this year with the view of linking up with the Kenyan SGR to the Indian Ocean coast.

The line from Mombasa port to Nairobi is already complete, and Kenya is expected to embark on the rest of the line westwards to Malaba at about the same time that Uganda starts its own SGR project.

But with the financing details for the SGR still not yet concretised between Uganda and China, and in light of a of seemingly cheaper alternative of just developing inland ports and banking on Tanzania’s SGR in the short and medium term, Museveni’s meeting with the officials could come up with a landmark decision.

Last year, Uganda snubbed Kenya and opted for the Tanzanian route for the construction of a planned crude oil export pipeline.

propaganda to attract readers...TZ rail is still a dream while the Kenyan one is already in place...funding is already in place as well. sijui tz mtaweza kufinance reli ya kiasi hicho vipi? hata hii ya kwenda rwanda sijui mtafinance vipi...

 

[Ndahani]

Tulichelewa kweli kupeleka SGR Ethiopia ila kuna LAPSETT ambayo itahakikisha tumenyakua soko hilo ...subiri wacha pupa...Kenya has a lot of potential...wakenya wajanja kwel kwel...si unawaona wakinyakua mpaka soko la Rwanda..hehe soko ambalo ukizingatia geografia ni soko la Tz kwani liko karibu na Dar kuliko Mombasa....Mmekuwa mkilala kweli na Kikwete ila sasa naona mmeshtuka kutoka usingizini na Rais Magu...if not for that, ungepata tz nzima inaagiza huduma kutoka bandari ya Mombasa...Kenyans are like magicians... wanajua sana kuwadangaya wajinga...usione Kenyatta ni kama ana roho nzuri sana wakati anapotuma salamu za rambirambi kwa Magu kila uchao, kisha anakuwa wa kwanza kutuma usaidizi Tz inapokumbwa na majanga...the guy has his own interests which you will see in time...mjanja kwel

Forget about Ethiopia...waitaliano wako kule

 

[Jay456watt]

Forget about Ethiopia...waitaliano wako kule

waitaliano? hehe sijakuelewa kiukweli.

 

[nyangau mkenya]

as we are waiting for phase 1 commissioning in about two weeks some gezas are fantasizing about imaginary railways that do not even have design plans

all they can do is to quote articles on paper and fake pictures of trains that belong to other countries.

we have fully secured funding for the final phase to Malaba with tunnels to Naivasha under construction ,hao bado wanapiga mahesabu how they will build a 300km stretch with their own cash, barely a quarter of the entire stretch.



maybe they need a reminder of what real stuff looks like

 

[Sammuel999]

nyangau mkenya no need wacha geza aongee mpaka achoke hvi ndivyo amekuwa toka Jadi!! No??

 

[MK254]

Safi sana nyangau mkenya It's a reality that's so spectacular.

 

[Geza Ulole]

Cargo train launching will have to be postponed as serious technical defaults were discovered.

 

[3rd man]

Cargo train launching will have to be postponed as serious technical defaults were discovered.

hehehe Mr giza utazidi kuisoma namba.Mtaipiku kenya NASA wakimshinda uhuru maana wale wanazile tabia za mkulu

 

[Geza Ulole]

hehehe Mr giza utazidi kuisoma namba.Mtaipiku kenya NASA wakimshinda uhuru maana wale wanazile tabia za mkulu

Launch of SGR cargo train service put off to December

TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2017 20:13

BY JAMES KARIUKI

Kenya has pushed the start of the standard gauge train cargo service to December, giving a temporary relieve to truckers and container freight station (CFS) investors.

Transport Principal Secretary Paul Maringa said direct cargo haulage of the SGR’s portion of the port’s one million-a-year containers to Nairobi inland container depots (ICD) will start by end year. “The freight uptake via SGR will considerably increase rail transport capacity once the operations commence in December 2017, and in accordance with the commitment made in the Mombasa Port Community Charter, signed in June 2014,” said Prof Maringa. Truckers and CFSs, which have thrived on congestion at the port, have previously raised concern over survival of their businesses in the era of fast trains.

Officials say that SGR trains have capacity to clear Mombasa’s cargo population at a rate of 1,000 containers per day.

According to Kenya Railways, the country has received 25 freight locomotives out of the 43 on order. It has also received 763 wagons out of the 1,620 units ordered for.

The 25-tonne axle flat wagons can each carry a payload of 70 tonnes, implying 113,4000 tonnes can be hauled if all of them are deployed on a single trip to Nairobi.

The trains are designed to run at a speed of 120 km per hour but will move at a lower speed of 80 km per hour, covering the 472km to Nairobi in just under six hours.

The Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has since said it will initially allocate just 40 per cent of its yard containers, about 400,000 per year or 33,333 per month, to the SGR trains.

The containers will from December be moved by SGR to the Nairobi ICDs for clearance and subsequent transportation to local factories and shops as well as neighbouring countries of Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and DRC Congo.

Kenya Railway’s SGR project manager Maxwell Mengich said the ICDs’ capacity had been expanded from 180,000 to 450,000 containers ready to handle increased cargo, with relevant state agencies placed on a unified IT platform for a seamless cargo clearance portal.

CUT STORAGE COSTS

According to KPA boss Catherine Mturi, a new container terminal with capacity to handle 550,000 containers has also been completed with the Kipevu Oil Terminal set for relocation to enhance safety and increase its capacity to 200,000 containers daily.

Ms Mturi welcomed the SGR facility saying it will held reduce the speed of cargo offloading from ships from the current seven days.

This will cut storage costs paid by cargo owners to private freight stations strewn around the port which were initially licensed to help ease congestion.

Ship operators had earlier introduced delay charges amounting to Sh100,000 per day upon expiry of the one week waiting time.

In a news dispatch Kenya Railways said track trials for passenger locomotives had been completed, adding that five trains were able to drive at 160 kilometres per hour but will only be allowed to do 120 kilomere per hour upon commissioning on June 1.

Each train will shuttle coaches carrying 1,096 passengers along the route shortening the 12 hour journey to a paltry four and a half.

The agency said that it was carrying our tests on cargo locomotives to ascertain their suitability to haul containers.

The SGR has 33 crossings and seven passenger stations.

Crossing preference will be given to freight trains to achieve shorter transit times


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