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Hapa sasa mmenza zile zenu za kawaida za kujitungia theory ambazo hazina sources. Eti umeshindwa kushawishi Uganda faida ya SGR. Soma ripoti ya Uganda Ministry of transport, utaona faida tele zimetajwa hapo..... Faida is not the issue..... money is the issueTanzania ina fight for Ugandan route in two fronts, moja ni SGR kagera-Kyaka-Mtukula (mind you haipiti Mwanza kama unavyo fikiria wewe. Ya pili ni meter gauge Tanga-Arusha-Musoma-victoria. Wakenya na wachina wote mmeshidwa kuwashawishi waganda kama wakiuganisha treni yao to Mombasa watapata faida gani. The way things are, wanaweza kujijengea reli yao wakafika mpaka South Sudan na kuendelea. Wanaweza waka piggyback network ya Tanzania wakifika mpaka South Africa. Ndio maana nikasema Back To Square One maana ni lazima mjiulize mara mbili hii SGR italipa au vipi.
This comes directly fom the Ugandn govt SGR team
SGR Uganda » Justification
Justification
Road transport dominates the Northern Corridor, accounting for over 95% of all the freight movement. Only 5% of fright is being handled by the existing dilapidated and inefficient meter gauge railway. But the combined road-railway capacity is highly inadequate. This situation has led to very high transport costs, rapid wear and tear of the road network, high transport energy consumption, high environmental pollution, frequent road accidents among others. As a result, the region has become very uncompetitive with the highest cost of doing business in the world. The outcome of this grim state of affairs is shifted industrial development and high unemployment especially of the youth. This therefore calls for an immediate intervention in Railway transport in order to boost the economic growth of the country and region as a whole.
Existing Situation
- Over 100 years old
- Dilapidated and out-dated technology
- Unreliable services, unsafe, inefficient and VERY COSTLY
- Only about 20% of existing railway system is operational (marginally)
- Freight market share is 3%, down from 15% in 2004
- 97% freight on roads with high total cost
Current Operational Status
- RVR concession runs up to June 2032
- RVR shareholders and lenders include AfDB, IFC, FMO, DEG, Equity Bank, EAIF among others
- Conceded core URC assets include land, tracks, bridge and buildings
- URC monitors RVR concession