Cost comparison SGR Kenya vs SGR Tanzania

Cost comparison SGR Kenya vs SGR Tanzania

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TRC issues apology for train delay​

Esther Takwa3 hours ago
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DAR ES SALAAM: The Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC) has issued an apology to passengers following the delay of its Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) electric train on Monday.
According to a statement issued by the TRC’s head of the Public Relations Unit at TRC, Jamila Mbarouk, the train traveling from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro and Dodoma and from Dodoma to Morogoro and Dar es Salaam, was delayed due to a technical fault.
“The train encountered some technical errors, but the issue was resolved, and our services have resumed,” part of the statement read.
The electric train encountered a problem around the Ngerengere area on Monday night, where it was forced to wait for several hours.
However, TRC expressed its gratitude to all passengers for their patience during the disruption

TRC issues apology for train delay - Daily News

The Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC) has issued an apology to passengers following the delay of its Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) electric train on Monday.
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Magonjwa Mtambuka said:
Unawacheka wengine halafu haya yanatokea kwako, ha ha ha upuuzi mtupu😎

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Mambo ya airport na train ni wapi na wapi?😂😂🤣

Unadhani wakenya ni wafala kama watanzania? Kenyan fights for their rights and those airport workers are right to fight for it. Ama unataka wawe kama watanzania wenye bandari yao yote imeuziwa warabu na wahindi lakini wamenyamaza tu?🤣🤣🤣
 
Teargas said:
Mambo ya airport na train ni wapi na wapi?😂😂🤣

Unadhani wakenya ni wafala kama watanzania? Kenyan fights for their rights and those airport workers are right to fight for it. Ama unataka wawe kama watanzania wenye bandari yao yote imeuziwa warabu na wahindi lakini wamenyamaza tu?🤣🤣🤣
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Upuuzi mtupu.
 
Geza Ulole said:
Tanzania secures $7.6 billion financing deal from Chinese lender to build new railway
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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.

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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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Ningekuwa mmoja wa viongozi wa China Exim bank ningekataa coz huo mkopo zaidi ya nusu unaliwa na majizi na mafisadi,robo zitaenda kwenye kampeni za CCM na robo inayobaki ndio kwenye mradi
 
GANJIBHAAI said:
Post ya kisiasa hii acha bange! We unafikiri kampuni ya Rotem hyundai ni kama Mathare Holding. Rudi nyuma kwenye thread utaona taarifa tangu zinaanza kutengenezwa from the scratch.
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shauri yako kama hutaki kukubali. ww hujiulizi maswali kwanini zinapata hitilafu kila kukicha?
 
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