Geza Ulole
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Mnajenga cargo SGR ya speed 70km/h? KwelI? 21st century hii? Halafull mnajitamba? Kipofu kaona mwezi!
Cost comparison SGR Kenya vs SGR Tanzania
Cost comparison SGR Kenya vs SGR Tanzania
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NairobiWalker
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Wacha tujenge yetu ya 19th Century - nyie jengeni the first cargo bullet train in the world itaisha 3030.😀😀😀
Geza Ulole
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The funny thing ya 19th century na 21st century zote hazijaisha! So usijisadikishe na kujibaragua!
Black Rock rails graphite sample from Mahenge
By Meagan Evans. Published at Apr 23, 2018, in Mining
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Black Rock Mining (ASX:BKT) today announced that it has successfully railed a 500-tonne bulk graphite sample from Ifakara, in central Tanzania, to the Port of Dar es Salaam on board a Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) train.
The sample from BKT’s Mahenge graphite project, south of Ifakara, departed by rail on April 22 to SGS’s Lakefield Lab in Canada. SGS will use the sample in transit for a second pilot plant to optimise operating parameters of BKT’s proposed processing method for Mahenge and continue its product qualification for potential off-take partner.
The graphite sample’s departure on board the TAZARA train demonstrated the viability of TAZARA as a logistics partner, clearing a hurdle in the development of the Mahenge project.
The Mahenge project is estimated as the fourth largest contained graphite resource in the world and holds significant upside potential for both BKT and Tanzania.
Earlier in April, BKT announced success from its initial pilot plant testing, producing a premium-sized product that is 97.5% carbon from a three-stage flotation cleaning circuit, and achieved with a small amount of polishing. SGS processed a 90-tonne sample from Mahenge and produced 10 tonnes of concentrate that BKT is distributing to potential global customers.
Black Rock rails graphite sample from Mahenge
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Tanzania secures $7.6 billion financing deal from Chinese lender to build new railway
President John Magufuli with China Exim Bank president Liu Liang after holding talks at Chamwino State Lodge in Dodoma this week. PHOTO | COURTESY
In Summary
- Dar es Salaam is positioning itself as a regional hub, upgrading its port to attract more business from its neighbouring landlocked countries.
- The EAC railways master plan incorporates the standard gauge railway’s Northern and Central Corridors, which are both commercially viable for landlocked countries in the region as they give them strategic access to the ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam.
- The Northern Corridor Integration Projects championed by Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda spearheaded the establishment of a railway link from Mombasa to Kigali.
- In June 2013, a Northern Corridor Integration Projects Heads of State Summit held in Kampala put in place mechanisms for fast-tracking the development of the SGR.
Tanzania has secured a $7.6 billion loan from China’s Export-Import Bank (Exim) for the construction of a railway line that will link it with Burundi, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo.
President John Magufuli secured the concessional loan after meeting with the Exim Bank’s president Liu Liang.
President Magufuli, while announcing the funding, alluded to a preferential deal without providing details.
Oil and gas discoveries have turned Tanzania into an exploration hotspot, but the country’s transport infrastructure has suffered from decades of under investment. The country is also positioning itself as a regional hub, upgrading its port to attract more business from its regional landlocked neighbours.
According to Mr Liu, China Exim Bank will offer Tanzania technical support.
READ: China Exim sets terms for financing Uganda’s SGR
ALSO READ: Rwanda looks to Tanzania for rail transport as Uganda falters on SGR
Last year, Tanzania announced that it had awarded rail contracts to a consortium of Chinese firms led by China Railway Materials (CRM), which included the standard gauge rail project.
The Exim Bank is also financing a $1.2 billion, 532km natural gas pipeline in Tanzania.
On Wednesday last week, Finance and Planning Minister Dr Philip Mpango after a meeting with Dr Alberic Kacou, African Development Bank vice-president for human resources and corporate services, announced that Tanzania had secured a further $200 million loan from the AfDB to finance transport infrastructure projects.
“We will use some of this funds towards the construction of the SGR project to transform the country’s infrastructure,” Dr Mpango said.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Gerson Msigwa, a spokesman for Tanzania’s presidency, said the construction will start by July next year. Before then, Tanzania and Exim Bank China will be expected to have finalise technical issues on the contract and sign the financing deal for the 2,190km project.
Tanzania Transport Minister Samuel Sitta said the SGR will have a main line that will connect the port city of Dar es Salaam to Rwanda and Burundi, with additional branch lines running within the country.
“We expect to have two offshoots: One of them to Mwanza, which will open up the lakeside port city and link it with Uganda, while the second one will link to the coal, iron ore and soda ash mining areas in the south. Through this, we expect an increase in cargo on this route,” Mr Sitta said, adding that will be at an additional cost of $6.6 billion.
Already, Tanzania has signed contracts with China Railway No 2 Engineering Group to build a rail link between the southern port of Mtwara, which is rich in coal, iron ore and natural gas. The contract will see China Railway No 2 Engineering Group provide 10 per cent of the funding with the rest provided by the government.
Kenya is also constructing a $3.27 billion 609km new standard gauge railway line between Mombasa and Nairobi to boost the movement of cargo from the port.
However, queries have been raised over the economic viability of SGR, after key landlocked states indicated their intention to connect to the Indian Ocean through Tanzania.
The issue of cost is also bound to arise now that Tanzania’s SGR is four times longer than Kenya’s but only two times as expensive.
In a previous interview with The EastAfrican, Kenya Railways managing director Atanas Maina said that the cost of the Kenyan SGR was high because of the design adopted, which will see the train maintain an average speed of 80 kilometres irrespective of the terrain.
“We have built bridges, and raised the track in areas where we would have had corners to achieve the average speed we expect the wagons to travel at. This has increased the costs immensely as compared with the neighbouring Ethiopia and Tanzania SGER designs that haven’t taken this into account,” Mr Maina said.
Recently, a confidential World Bank report cast doubt on the region’s push for the SGR projects, saying they would only be viable with increases in cargo of between 20 tonnes and 55 million tonnes per year.
The report done by the Africa transport unit at the World Bank titled The Economics of Rail Gauge in the East Africa Community showed that the volumes of the forecasts undertaken for the EAC railway master plan and central line in Tanzania, are unattainable over the medium to longer term.
“Based on these assumptions, there is no economic or financial case for standard gauge in the EAC area at this time. A refurbished meter gauge network would appear to be the most appropriate option in economic and financial terms, and could easily accommodate forecast traffic up to 2030, with lower investment requirements,” the report concludes.
The World Bank team highlighted the rehabilitation of the existing railway network as the best alternative, which would allow a phased approach to the regions development, consistent with current and projected demand and the financing envelope available.
The SGR alternative, which the regional governments chose, involves the construction of a standard gauge railway on a new right of way, an option the World Bank team said required additional investment in land acquisition and structures, and new right-of-way construction.
“This alternative predicates axle loads in the order of 25 tons per axles and a maximum operating speed of up to 120 km per hour. Again, based on these assumptions, the estimated maximum carrying capacity of the current network would exceed 60 million tonnes per year. The estimated investment cost per km will be $ 3.25 million,” the report said.
From the estimates provided, the Tanzanian new railway line will cost an average of $3.4 million per kilometre.
MY TAKE
It is time now to look at the cost of the two rails as we know cost of construction is very important for prospect of any infrastructure! i welcome bright minds to contribute and not some propaganda in here!
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Chinese firm stops workers from sharing information
MONDAY, MAY 14, 2018 7:45
BY BONFACE OTIENO
China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), the Chinese company that operates the standard gauge railway (SGR), has kicked up a labour market storm after it issued its employees with gagging orders barring them from leaking any information about the firm’s activities.
CRBC says in a letter seen by the Business Dailythat no employee will be allowed to record, store, copy and share any confidential information on SGR operations to non-workers without approval of the company.
ALSO READ: Kenya Railways to increase SGR freight charges in July
“One should not post negative articles, videos or photos on social media that involves SGR operations,” the letter says even as it warns of dire consequences.
The directive goes against the constitutional and legal obligations of Kenya Railways, a State corporation that is bound to conduct its operations with utmost transparency in order to remain accountable to the people of Kenya whose taxes run it.
The Kenyan Constitution gives citizens the right to access information held by the State or another person especially where that information is required for the exercise or protection of any right or fundamental freedom.
CRBC last May signed a five-year operations, maintenance and service agreement with Kenya Railways for the Mombasa-Nairobi segment of the SGR line. The deal also requires the Chinese firm to maintain the equipment and rail tracks according to prescribed manuals and in line with best global industry standards.
The Chinese operator has, however, on a number of occasions been accused of violating workers’ rights – a development that may have prompted the company to issue the gag notice to employees.
Three years ago, for instance, more than 300 SGR workers in Voi sub-county downed their tools alleging discrimination by CRBC officials. The workers drawn from Manyani and Man-Eaters camp sites said they were risking their lives as police officers deployed to provide security at the camp were only guarding Chinese officials, leaving them at the mercy of wild animals.
The Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) said there was nothing unique about the directive as such matters are dealt with under specific employment contracts and internal human resource policy manuals.
“The legal provision will be dealt with under the specific employment contract and the company’s human resource policy manual. The confidentiality clause and non-complete agreements bind employees under common law,” said FKE executive director Jacqueline Mugo.
Chinese firm stops workers from sharing information
MONDAY, MAY 14, 2018 7:45
BY BONFACE OTIENO
China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), the Chinese company that operates the standard gauge railway (SGR), has kicked up a labour market storm after it issued its employees with gagging orders barring them from leaking any information about the firm’s activities.
CRBC says in a letter seen by the Business Dailythat no employee will be allowed to record, store, copy and share any confidential information on SGR operations to non-workers without approval of the company.
ALSO READ: Kenya Railways to increase SGR freight charges in July
“One should not post negative articles, videos or photos on social media that involves SGR operations,” the letter says even as it warns of dire consequences.
The directive goes against the constitutional and legal obligations of Kenya Railways, a State corporation that is bound to conduct its operations with utmost transparency in order to remain accountable to the people of Kenya whose taxes run it.
The Kenyan Constitution gives citizens the right to access information held by the State or another person especially where that information is required for the exercise or protection of any right or fundamental freedom.
CRBC last May signed a five-year operations, maintenance and service agreement with Kenya Railways for the Mombasa-Nairobi segment of the SGR line. The deal also requires the Chinese firm to maintain the equipment and rail tracks according to prescribed manuals and in line with best global industry standards.
The Chinese operator has, however, on a number of occasions been accused of violating workers’ rights – a development that may have prompted the company to issue the gag notice to employees.
Three years ago, for instance, more than 300 SGR workers in Voi sub-county downed their tools alleging discrimination by CRBC officials. The workers drawn from Manyani and Man-Eaters camp sites said they were risking their lives as police officers deployed to provide security at the camp were only guarding Chinese officials, leaving them at the mercy of wild animals.
The Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) said there was nothing unique about the directive as such matters are dealt with under specific employment contracts and internal human resource policy manuals.
“The legal provision will be dealt with under the specific employment contract and the company’s human resource policy manual. The confidentiality clause and non-complete agreements bind employees under common law,” said FKE executive director Jacqueline Mugo.
Chinese firm stops workers from sharing information
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Chinese bank cuts Sh32bn SGR funds
MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2018 9:27
BY BONFACE OTIENO
The financier of the standard gauge railway (SGR), China Exim Bank, has cut funding to ongoing work on the second phase of the railroad by a whopping Sh32 billion, citing the barrage of court cases against the project.
Supplementary budget documents tabled in Parliament last week show that allocations to the SGR project dropped by Sh42 billion, including the Sh32 billion held back by the lender.
The remaining Sh10 billion was counterpart financing from the railway development levy fund that has now been reallocated to pay contractors who built the Mombasa-Nairobi section of the project and settle the management fees payable to the Chinese operator of the rail line.
“The State department had projects such as Nairobi-Naivasha SGR allocation reduced by Sh42 billion of which Sh32 billion was from a donor because of court cases, while Sh10 billion railway development levy fund was re-allocated to Mombasa-Nairobi SGR project,” the supplementary budget II says.
MPs responded to the decision with a statement saying “the reduction in funding for the project could result in delayed completion and increase in interest and other claims on delayed payments and increased costs of projects than originally planned.”
Multiple challenges
Phase II of the SGR project, covering the Nairobi-Naivasha section of the line, has faced multiple challenges since work on it began in the last quarter of 2017, including a court case filed by environmentalists opposed to the line’s passage through the Nairobi National Park.
Last September, the National Environment Tribunal temporarily stopped construction of the section until a dispute challenging it is determined.
The 120-kilometre Nairobi-Naivasha line, which cuts through the Nairobi National Park, town centres and agricultural zones like Maai Mahiu will cost the taxpayer Sh150 billion.
It connects to the recently completed Mombasa-Nairobi segment and is ultimately expected to connect Nairobi to Kampala via Naivasha, Kisumu and Malaba. The contractor, China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), moved to site last October and has been working since despite numerous challenges.
Delays
Last September, lack of a land compensation plan delayed works on the project up to four months after Kenya secured funding from the Chinese.
Works on the project were once again suspended for about one week in January as workers protested low pay and harsh working conditions.
Delay in completing the section could also affect construction of the segment to Malaba, where it will connect with the Ugandan section.
The Kenyan SGR project is in competition with Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam line that also seeks to connect landlocked Uganda and Rwanda respectively.
Tanzania has already grabbed an oil pipeline that was to run from Uganda through Kenya to the coast and Nairobi is keen on ensuring a repeat of the same does not happen.
Kenya Railways, the project owner, did not respond to our queries on the subject.
Chinese bank cuts Sh32bn SGR funds
MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2018 9:27
BY BONFACE OTIENO
The financier of the standard gauge railway (SGR), China Exim Bank, has cut funding to ongoing work on the second phase of the railroad by a whopping Sh32 billion, citing the barrage of court cases against the project.
Supplementary budget documents tabled in Parliament last week show that allocations to the SGR project dropped by Sh42 billion, including the Sh32 billion held back by the lender.
The remaining Sh10 billion was counterpart financing from the railway development levy fund that has now been reallocated to pay contractors who built the Mombasa-Nairobi section of the project and settle the management fees payable to the Chinese operator of the rail line.
“The State department had projects such as Nairobi-Naivasha SGR allocation reduced by Sh42 billion of which Sh32 billion was from a donor because of court cases, while Sh10 billion railway development levy fund was re-allocated to Mombasa-Nairobi SGR project,” the supplementary budget II says.
MPs responded to the decision with a statement saying “the reduction in funding for the project could result in delayed completion and increase in interest and other claims on delayed payments and increased costs of projects than originally planned.”
Multiple challenges
Phase II of the SGR project, covering the Nairobi-Naivasha section of the line, has faced multiple challenges since work on it began in the last quarter of 2017, including a court case filed by environmentalists opposed to the line’s passage through the Nairobi National Park.
Last September, the National Environment Tribunal temporarily stopped construction of the section until a dispute challenging it is determined.
The 120-kilometre Nairobi-Naivasha line, which cuts through the Nairobi National Park, town centres and agricultural zones like Maai Mahiu will cost the taxpayer Sh150 billion.
It connects to the recently completed Mombasa-Nairobi segment and is ultimately expected to connect Nairobi to Kampala via Naivasha, Kisumu and Malaba. The contractor, China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), moved to site last October and has been working since despite numerous challenges.
Delays
Last September, lack of a land compensation plan delayed works on the project up to four months after Kenya secured funding from the Chinese.
Works on the project were once again suspended for about one week in January as workers protested low pay and harsh working conditions.
Delay in completing the section could also affect construction of the segment to Malaba, where it will connect with the Ugandan section.
The Kenyan SGR project is in competition with Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam line that also seeks to connect landlocked Uganda and Rwanda respectively.
Tanzania has already grabbed an oil pipeline that was to run from Uganda through Kenya to the coast and Nairobi is keen on ensuring a repeat of the same does not happen.
Kenya Railways, the project owner, did not respond to our queries on the subject.
Chinese bank cuts Sh32bn SGR funds
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Track laying has already commenced for phase 11
NairobiWalker
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Na ile cargo bullet train je? Una picha zozote maana mimi nataka kuiona sana.
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Sina, track laying has commenced all sleepers that were at the sleeper factory at the end of sgr nairobi line have been moved and track laying is now at nairobi national park bridge, every time i pass there i find things have changed,
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The on -going civil construction works for the Standard Gauge Railway line linking the Port of Mombasa Island and Mainland part.
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Imagine all this halafu mtambo wa gongo una-cruise at 50 km/h! Aisee Mchina noumeeer!😛
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Picha za bullet train sizioni?
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kipofu haambiwi ona
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Siku ya kuziona hatutakwambia utaleta ushuhuda tu.
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🙄🙄🙄
''tuta''
meanwhile ''chuma chakavu'' engineers experience gain on point
Mombasa port taking ten steps ahead ,new rail mounted cranes installed ,extension of sgr to cover more births
''tuta''
meanwhile ''chuma chakavu'' engineers experience gain on point
Mombasa port taking ten steps ahead ,new rail mounted cranes installed ,extension of sgr to cover more births