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Cost comparison SGR Kenya vs SGR Tanzania
Cost comparison SGR Kenya vs SGR Tanzania
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My friend, if mnatumia half containers to meet ur axle load capacity, do u think full double stacked is a far fetched dream!
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No it was never designed nor meant to be electric.. feasibility study report ya SGR Kenya was done in 2011 when Raila was Prime minister and Kibaki president. It said Kenya electricity was unrealible ... Uhuru Kenyatta came into power in 2013, everything about the SGR was already known t, anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to themselves to justify whatever opinion they hold.
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Hihi kwahivyo tulipeleka container kwa fundi wa jua Kali akaikata na kuifanya nusu sio? You don't know what you are saying... Too desperate!My friend, if mnatumia half containers to meet ur axle load, do u think full double stacked is a far fetched dream!
Kwa hiyo na wee unaamin hizi porojo
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nakumbuka aliondoa ujenzi wa elevators mahospitalini ulio kisheria Uhuru hospital Dodoma, kwahiyo sidhani kama anashindwa!
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I used to have an article from 2010, I can't seem to find it, but here is another one from 2012 talking about SGR contract being signed, this article is from CCCC the parent company of CRBC which built the Msa-Nrb section. Its from 2012, Uhuru became president in 2013.
Contract for online works of Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is signed by CRBC
Source: CRBC Time: 2012-10-09
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Source: China Communications construction company Ltd.-Company News
At this point in time, the feasibility study had already been done in 2009! that's when the cost of the project was determined, that's the time when speed was determined, that's when they decided to forgo electric traction in favors of Diesel. From 2009 after the feasibility report was done and approved, that's when they started the environmental and social impact report ESIA which was released in 2012 and the contract was then signed with the contractor CRBC (Again, b4 Uhuru Kenyatta was president).. The cost was already known, everything was already set, the only thing that was left was money.
When Uhuru became president, It was in 2014 that he traveled to China to sign the loan with EXIM bank which paved way for the commencement of the project. Most people you find on twitter, social media, offline only remember this part, and if you ask them they will tell you that this was the time that Uhuru's government changed the amount of loan sijui they inflated the cost.. blah blah blah, but as you can see from the article, the cost was already determined way back before he was president, all he had to do was sign (or not if he had chosen to) but he certainly did not change it.
-Alafu hapo pia unaona wameongelea Chinese technical standards (Si ulikua unasema hakuna kitu kama hicho? thats where Class I came from)
- You can also see a breakdown of the cost $2.66 Billion ndo garama ya ujenzi wa reli na stesheni zake pekee (offline works), $1.15 Billion ni garama ya online works which includes treni 54 na mabehewa karibia elfu mbili na heavy machinery equipents za kufanya maintenance among other things......
But When Kenya SGR is compared to other railways in terms of cost per Km, watu huchukua hio total cost and divide it by route length....... Wakati, kwa mfano, SGR Tanzania, hii total cost ni ya kujenga reli, stesheni na overhead electric poles pekee,
Tayari najua TANESCO wamegaramika $60million kujenga dedicated transmission line ya SGR kama sijakosea
Kuna vile vichwa 17 na EMU 80 za abiria ambazo mmepiga order kule South Korea kwa garama ya $300 Million, tena naskia mkisema hio si order kamili, kuna vyengine sijui mtaagizia kutoka sehemu nyengine..
Alafu bado kuna garama ya yale mabehewa ambayo if I rem correctly ni zaidi ya mabehewa 1,500. That will cost you like an extra $100 million give or take....
Ukiongeza hizi garama nyengine ndogo ndogo utakuta mwisho wa siku if you were to take the total cost devide by route length kama vile Kenya, you will get different results than what you get now!
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You can trust Geuza Ulale to pick a random photo from Kenya and fix the most ridiculous and stupid nonsensical caption to it.My friend, if mnatumia half containers to meet ur axle load, do u think full double stacked is a far fetched dream!
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Update August 2021: electrical SGR Dar-Morogoro
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nini kimekufanya useme software upgrading na si normal traffic and security control? can software upgrading be run while the system is operating without a bypass? wacha kuropokwa!!Software Upgrade for the Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) System Completed on 14 Sep 2021
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SGR revenue up 25pc on increased imports
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 21 2021
Standard Gauge Railway trains at the Port of Mombasa. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Revenue generated from the standard gauge railway (SGR) rose 25 percent in the seven months to July, driven by increased imports.
Latest data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that revenues rose to Sh9.08 billion from Sh7.2 billion in similar period last year.
The increase comes at a time the country’s import bill grew 27.69 percent, signalling increased volumes of shipments at the Port of Mombasa as economies reopened.
All imported cargo from the Port of Mombasa is ferried aboard the SGR to the Nairobi Internal Container Depot from where it is trucked to other parts of the country and neighbouring countries.
Revenues from the cargo train accounted for more than half of the Sh1.86 billion increase in the SGR revenues.
Cargo revenues rose by Sh1.69 billion to Sh8 billion while earnings from the passenger business grew by Sh690.8 million to Sh1.07 billion.
Cargo and passenger revenues had taken a hit last year due to the travel restrictions imposed to curb spread of the coronavirus that saw the SGR suspend passenger services in May and June.
The pandemic hit the logistics sector, including public transport and the long-haul transits, hard following the imposed night curfew and restrictions of movement in and out of Nairobi metropolitan area, Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale and Mandera.
The restrictions were lifted in May last year.
The freight train remained operational but closure of ports in main source markets like Japan and China to stem spread of the virus hurt the cargo volumes.
The value of imports in the seven months to July grew by Sh253. 4 billion to Sh1.168 trillion.
The High Court in June extended orders suspending a decision that allowed importers to choose their preferred mode of transport for their cargo, giving Kenya Railways Corporation a reprieve in its efforts to improve returns from the modern train.
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You have deep rooted issues that need the help of a doctor Mr.Geza ...... Habari inasema "Completed on 14 Sep 2021" So if I show you a picture of people testing the system after the Upgrade is complete shida iko wapi? ama ulikua unataka wakuonyeshe ikiwa halfway installing ndo uamini?
Na hata kama ingekua si picha ya wao wakifanya testing after the upgrade, Lets say it a normal traffic control as you say< so kuna shida gani niki attach hio picha pamoja na hio habari kwamba software ya hio traffic control system unayoiona hapo kwa picha ilifanyiwa upgrade ilioisha on 14 Sep 2021?
Hivi wewe ukionyesha picha ya Stesheni ya Dodoma na useme ujenzi ulikamilika 20 Sep 2021 mimi nafaa nikuulize wapi picha ya wakimaliza kujenga hio siku? What kind of stupid question would that be?
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testing and upgrading are 2 different things! anyway good that u corrected urself!
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After you upgrade the system you have to test it to make sure there was no corruption or errors or new bugs that will affect the normal operation.
If you look closely at the desk, you will see that everyone has a booklet that contains a checklist of items that they have to test to make sure the there was 100% transition into the new system.
One of the software components being upgraded was Language ..i.e From half Chinese- half translated English to Full English (Eng-Br) Language on all User Interfaces .....
Now imagine if they say they have upgraded the language and any Kenyan who can't read Chinese can use it now, alafu 3 months later a Kenyan using the system decides to change some preference alafu akienda kwa setting anapata system iko in English but maandishi hapo kwa settings bado yameandikwa in Chinese na yeye haelewi Kichina!!! So abviously, for such a critical system, lazima comprehensive tests zifanywe after a major upgrade before the system can be said to have been upgraded,