Dreamliner is seriously giving people sleepless nights.The plane is leased by GoT to ATCL, it makes $$ for their country, and should ATCL not payup(very unlikely) GoT can lease it to any other airline..Its a money making asset. GoK has not even 1 bombadier let alone dreamliner😂😂Don’t compare Uhuru to ur iron fist leader. The rate cap law came from parliament (a legislative arm of government) and the CBK governor rightfully petioned law makers to re-consider the law. Yaani jamaa anafanya kazi yake advising and enlightening the other arms of government.
Now this is real democracy at work. Working synergistically together. In TZ am sure you don’t know any such level of independence. Kila Sheria na sharti inatoka ikulu.
No sane economist would advice to buy a dremilier ya kuzurura nchi kama Matatu
CBK Governor asks Parliament to scrap rate cap law
Hiyo Dreamliner moja tu ya TZ is nothing but a national pride invested in a CCM propaganda. Dreamliner kutua angania every 2hrs kama matatu is pure madness and nonsense. Serious wear and tear ilihali expertise na fedha ya maintenance hamna😂Dreamliner is seriously giving people sleepless nights.The plane is leased by GoT to ATCL, it makes $$ for their country, and should ATCL not payup(very unlikely) GoT can lease it to any other airline..Its a money making asset. GoK has not even 1 bombadier let alone dreamliner
ATCL is getting international routes in september. How did you want them to bid for these routes if they have no dreamliner? It would be a joke for an airline to pester foreign Govnts for routes when they have no plane, and even for their single plane its still an uphill climb..But thankfully an extra plane is comming in 2019 and TZ has good relations with many countries..Hiyo Dreamliner moja tu ya TZ is nothing but a national pride invested in a CCM propaganda. Dreamliner kutua angania every 2hrs kama matatu is pure madness and nonsense. Serious wear and tear ilihali expertise na fedha ya maintenance hamna😂
That route will remain on soft copy...it can not be implemented since it involves two countries to approve the transits prior to their destinations, these will result to complications on their logistics putting aside the distance factor...And this can be verified by Burundi and Rwanda r falling in love to Tanzania route since it involves only one country unlike the northern corridor as well as the distance...Truth be told ,u had a such masterplan since Tanzania was not expected to initiate the construction of central corridor
Utauwa huyu mtu na pressure😂😂😂 Acha ni 🏃🏃🏃Dreamliner is seriously giving people sleepless nights.The plane is leased by GoT to ATCL, it makes $$ for their country, and should ATCL not payup(very unlikely) GoT can lease it to any other airline..Its a money making asset. GoK has not even 1 bombadier let alone dreamliner
Hawa watu wanataka Tz Ikate tamaa kwa biashara ya Ndege ili WaTZ waendelee kutumia KQ. Hautasikia hata mmoja akisema KQ ni hasara tupu na ni sahihi wafunge kampuni watumie ET ama Emirates. Ukiwauliza best way to revive ATCL hawana Jibu lakini wako wakwanza kukosoa mikakati ya revivalUtauwa huyu mtu na pressure😂😂😂 Acha ni 🏃🏃🏃
Why dont you stop panicking and enjoy the diesel locomotives? JPM said he has money to build rail with no loan, he has done it .He also has said he has the electricity to run it..and he will so dont be shocked
Tanzania ya wonders kweli!. Yani sitting comfortably among the 10 African counties with WORST electricity supply but you are building an electric railway. Maajabu ya kutisha na kusitikisha!
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Burundi has only 7% of population connected to power!!Typical CCM propaganda. So emperor JPM has no capacity to provide local mwanainchi with electricity but will miraculously supply reliable quality electricity to SGR ambayo bado hamna reli, it is still is a work in progress.
To make matters worse Burundi has only 7% of population connected to power, how do you expect to extend SGR ya wonders to Burundi? Ama JPM is planning to pass his majic skills to Nkurunzia [emoji23][emoji23]
This comedy unfolding and Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi will learn from your comedy of errors.
Am sure somebody presented sane facts to Magufuli but he bulldozed them Same way alinunua Dreamliner ovyo ovyo kufanya biashara ya matatu
How would you want Tz SGR to be built? Over night? They have a schedule and are following it to the letter..The contractor has not complained,Tanzanians have not compained, why are you complaining?Ati he has done it? DONE WHAT EXACTLY?? [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
Your rail has not even reached 5% completion and you guys are running left right and centre borrowing loans for this SGR. Don't be STUPID
All the best guys!Waliosema SGR Kenya haiendi anywhere wanalia kwa hasira...slowly this project is coming into place while our neighbors are still kept in the dark about their SGR.
Uganda has said that it will sign its final financing agreement for its SGR in September, to pave the way for the construction, which has been delayed for more than two years.
Kenya, which is depending on Kampala to secure joint funding for the Kisumu-Malaba stretch, has already started laying the tracks for the $1.5 billion second phase of the line between Nairobi and Naivasha.
Uganda, Kenya to unlock SGR funds ‘soon’
Chinese delegation holds talks with presidents Kenyatta and Museveni.
The Ngong Tunnel of the Nairobi-Naivasha Standard Gauge Railway (Phase 2A). PHOTO | NMG
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IN SUMMARY
- A Chinese delegation has held talks with presidents Kenyatta and Museveni on the project’s progress.
- Uganda has said that it will sign its final financing agreement for its SGR in September.
- Kenya, which is depending on Kampala to secure joint funding for the Kisumu-Malaba stretch, has already started laying the tracks for the $1.5 billion second phase of the line between Nairobi and Naivasha.
- The Chinese Exim Bank is the financier of the railway project for both Kenya and Uganda.
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The plan to connect the region through a railway network is inching towards reality, after Kenyan and Ugandan presidents met with Chinese officials this week, with reports that the two countries are likely to finalise a financing deal for the Kisumu-Malaba-Kampala stretch of the standard gauge railway soon.
Uganda has said that it will sign its final financing agreement for its SGR in September, to pave the way for the construction, which has been delayed for more than two years.
Kenya, which is depending on Kampala to secure joint funding for the Kisumu-Malaba stretch, has already started laying the tracks for the $1.5 billion second phase of the line between Nairobi and Naivasha.
This week, a Chinese delegation led by vice-premier Wang Yang and China Exim Bank chairperson Li Ruogo met with Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta and Yoweri Museveni. The agenda was to update the Chinese officials on the progress of the SGR projects in Kenya, and hold discussions on Uganda’s first phase.
The Chinese Exim Bank is the financier of the railway project for both Kenya and Uganda.
The financing deal between Uganda and China Exim Bank on the Malaba-Kampala line could be concluded in September, when the leaders are expected to visit Beijing for the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation.
Two previous attempts in June and October last year to have a joint delegation from Nairobi and Kampala to Beijing flopped. The delegation was meant to iron out the financing issues for the last phase of Kenya’s SGR between Kisumu and Malaba that would then unlock the funding for Uganda’s Malaba to Kampala line.
SGR progress
The Chinese officials’ meeting with the Ugandan leadership came as Kampala intensified its efforts in renovating its metre gauge railway while it awaits a financing deal for the SGR.
“By July, the financing agreement made with the Chinese contractor and financier will be implemented and works are expected to start thereafter,” Uganda’s Prime Minister, Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, said after meeting the Chinese vice-premier.
Kenya however remained guarded on the discussions of the Nairobi meeting with the Chinese delegation.
“We shall be making certain requests, but at the moment I cannot divulge them,” said Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia after visiting the Kenya SGR Nairobi terminus with the Chinese officials. “Discussions are in progress, but I can tell you that Wang was excited with what he has seen.”
President Kenyatta was on Friday expected to inspect the progress of construction on the Nairobi-Naivasha stretch. The Kenyan project contractor, China Communications Construction Company, through its affiliate China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), said it was ahead of schedule with the project, which it expects to complete by June 2019.
“The launch of track laying and girder erecting signifies the project will transition from civil works to the next stage. So far the construction and erection of beams and the tunnel has progressed on smoothly,” said CRBC chairman Lu Shan.
The contractor said that the more than 380 spans of T-beams have been fabricated and each span will be made of two symmetrical sections. More than 80,000 rail sleepers have also been fabricated and will cover 40 kilometres of the track.
“As it is, we are constructing railway stations in Suswa, Ongata Rongai and Ngong towns. We shall also be completing the 4.5 kilometre tunnels in Ngong and Suswa by August this year,” the Chinese railway contractor’s spokesperson Steve Zhao said.
The 120km Phase 2A is expected to terminate in Naivasha and will be the first of the three segments that make up the second phase of the SGR between Nairobi and Malaba.
Kenya Railways managing director Atanas Maina said that so far, construction is 49 per cent complete.
“I am happy with the civil works undertaken by the contractor. The site clearance, top soil stripping to earthworks and protection of the line have all been done to our satisfaction,” said Mr Maina.
Cargo
In the one year of its operation, more than one million passengers have used the SGR line, with the cargo segment which started operations in January this year, moving more than 800,000 tonnes of cargo.
“We shall soon be seeing increased cargo volumes, especially the bulk segment when we complete the port relief line by September. This will allow trains to access Berth 1 at the Mombasa port,” said Mr Maina.
Early this month, the contractor completed the 250 metres cross-bridge connecting the port of Mombasa and the SGR at the Mombasa terminus.
The bridge is part of the 2.7 km SGR port relief line that will cover Mombasa Ports’ 10 berths. Currently, the berths are connected to the SGR terminus via road, meaning cargo at the port is offloaded via cranes and is then ferried via trucks to the SGR line.
Uganda on the other hand is trying to juggle modernising its metre gauge railway and the initial works on its SGR project, currently at the land compensation stage.
Uganda Railways Corporation took over the operation of the metre gauge railway, after the Rift Valley Railways concession was terminated. Railway services on the eastern route resumed in February this year, while passenger rail service in the Kampala Metropolitan Area between Namanve and Kampala Stations was reinstated.
“We remain committed to the development of the SGR. Eight per cent of the right of way for the SGR has been acquired with 228 affected persons in Tororo having been paid. In the new financial year, additional land on the eastern route will be procured to facilitate the SGR right of way. Also, 42 wagons will be rehabilitated and bad spots along Port Bell will be repaired. The railway reserve boundaries will also be marked,” Uganda’s finance minister Matia Kasaija said last week.
In April, it tested the rehabilitated Port Bell to Kampala Railway Station line with a cargo train as part of ongoing plans to open new transport corridors. So far Kampala has spent $300,000 to rehabilitate this line, with the works involving the replacement of the rails and sleepers.
How would you want Tz SGR to be built? Over night? They have a schedule and are following it to the letter..The contractor has not complained,Tanzanians have not compained, why are you complaining?
Kenya SGR has. been bashed by kenyans, World bank, EU countries(development partners) as being unsustainable due to the massive loans. Its not Tz how started the bashing..The only peoole happy about SGR is a section of kenya's leadership and Ofcourse China.. The main customer of the train(Importers) are not happy with it and decry being forced to use it. That said, let Tanzanians build they way they want..its theirs and its to serve them not to enrich china or be a political projectI have no problem with your SGR. I have a problem with you people trash talking OUR SGR and talking about building it with your own cash.
That could have been a great achievement, but you have to be brainwashed to believe that when your government is running to any country that cares to listen to finance it's construction. You get it?
Kenya SGR has. been bashed by kenyans, World bank, EU countries(development partners) as being unsustainable due to the massive loans. Its not Tz how started the bashing..The only peoole happy about SGR is a section of kenya's leadership and Ofcourse China.. The main customer of the train(Importers) are not happy with it and decry being forced to use it. That said, let Tanzanians build they way they want..its theirs and its to serve them not to enrich china or be a political project
That is your opinoion and also the opinion of China that has single handedly done the feasibility study, financing and construction..I only trust opinions of independent parties that have no direct intrest in the project..Kenyans have bashed it in terms of the numerous huge loans we are getting from China. However painful, this is an investment for the future and it will most definitely pay back itself. Nobody can say it is unsustainable.
In terms of service and ripple effects to the economy, that's a no brainer. Efficiency is the word... Don't talk about 'being forced' if you don't have the facts.
Anyway, more than 2 million people have used the SGR and it's not even finished yet. Expectations once it reaches Uganda and by extension Rwanda are massive.
That said, build your SGR. Whether it's by seeking loans or not, we don't care. This SGR is an investment by Kenya. Leave it out of your shenanigans.
Nairobi-Naivasha phase is 49% complete. Mbona SGR ya jirani haina any data. Hatujui hata kama 1% is compete.
Hapa naomba niku unge mkono ata mimi sijui kama hipo 1% COMPETE!!Nairobi-Naivasha phase is 49% complete. Mbona SGR ya jirani haina any data. Hatujui hata kama 1% is compete.
Do you have google?..Burundi has only 7% of population connected to power!!
Wewe jamaa vipi unaleta jedwali baada ya dakika moja unalipinga mwenyewe!
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Kenyan SGR has been openly analyzed and discussed. Huko TZ mko kimya kimya, hata baada ya mbunge kuleta hiyo mada bungeni.Kenya SGR has. been bashed by kenyans, World bank, EU countries(development partners) as being unsustainable due to the massive loans. Its not Tz how started the bashing..The only peoole happy about SGR is a section of kenya's leadership and Ofcourse China.. The main customer of the train(Importers) are not happy with it and decry being forced to use it. That said, let Tanzanians build they way they want..its theirs and its to serve them not to enrich china or be a political project