Hey, BTW, there have been very many articles (more than 50) since the begining of of the construction of kenyas SGR, these articles especially by kenyan jounerlists over the years have been analysing from all and every angle ....
I have never seen anyone critisizing the one in Ethiopia..... while the one in ethiopia is cheaper per kilometer mainly because its a class II standar........has anyone asked if ethiopias rail is economically viable?
I mean....
1: ethiopia is building the grand renaisance dam with a loan of $3.7B, this dam will produce 6000MW. Ethiopia will need alot of industries to sell this power to inorder to make a good return on investments
2: Ethiopia SGR is electrified and will need alot of stable power, I dont know how much but i imagin its alot, all this power only makes ethiopias rail 20km/h faster...
3 and most important, from statistics the daily traffic of lorries and tralers plying the dgibouti adis ababa route is 1,500 trucks, while the daily traffic of trallers between mombasa and nairobi is 4,300.....
Given that already Kenyas per capita purchasing power parity is double that of ethiopia and also given that the mombasa route already carries 3 times more cargo even before the SGR, and given that ethiopias SGR adds alot of power costs with less cargo, has anyone ever analized if the ethiopias rail is really cost effective or economically viable.
already as it is the dgibouti port is too conjested as it is, also its so conjested that if we finish constructing the lamu port fast enough before dgibouty upgrades its port, we could be able to transport goods via road from lamu to ethiopia on that smooth road within a few days, days that cargo ships usually spend at dgibouti port before offloading its cargo.
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