Uganda to prioritise narrow gauge revamp over SGR to Malaba

Uganda to prioritise narrow gauge revamp over SGR to Malaba

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Geza and all the Jealous Tanzanians following the Monkey See Monkey Do President .. Maghu-FOOL-I
DUUUUHHHHH DUUUHHHHHHH DAAARRRR DUUUUHHHH
 
That means Kenya will not get loan from china for Naivasha Malaba as this was a condition from them. SGR ya kenya( White elephant) inaishia hapo tu Naivasha kwa Mùthamaki
 
Geza Ulole said:
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gandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said completion of the first phase of SGR has drastically lowered the costs of transporting goods within the region.

“It is three times more costly to transport anything on the road even with the old line,” said President Museveni, adding: “With SGR reaching Nairobi, it costs eight cents dollars per metric a tonne compared to 21 cents dollars by road.”

President Museveni was speaking Thursday at the opening of the Joint Retreat of East Africa Community Heads of State in Entebbe.

The first commercial train ferrying cargo on the SGR from Mombasa arrived in Nairobi’s ultra-modern inland container depot on January 1 this year.

The cargo train carried 104 containers, which is almost equivalent to the trucks operating daily on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway.

At the retreat attended by Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya), John Pombe Magufuli (Tanzania) and Salva Kiir (South Sudan), President Museveni said the on-going infrastructural projects are a clear demonstration of a region making progress.

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The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) will lead the training of engineers to fast-track the construction of the standard gauge railway.

This was announced Monday by the National Enterprise Corporation managing director, Maj Gen James Mugira, at the ministry of defence headquarters in Mbuya, a Kampala suburb.
“We shall extend specialised training to all our officers in the UPDF Engineering Brigade including the wananchi (civilians) towards the realisation of this big project,” he said.
NEC is a State corporation that was established in 1989 as a commercial arm of the army.

Gen Mugira was speaking at the welcome ceremony of ten UPDF/NEC officers who attained specialised training in railway construction from China’s Shijiazhuang Tiedao University.

The group will train other officers in the engineering brigade and staff at the ministry of works and transport on the construction of the modern railway facility.

Uganda military to train SGR engineers
 
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Uganda SGR boss drives local content campaign
Uganda has set a high bar on local content for the Chinese contractor picked to build its standard gauge railway as it seeks dividends for industries and workers from the $2.3 billion investment.

The government official in charge of the project that will be financed by the China Export Import bank said the government expected nearly a third of the project sum — $700 million — to be used to spur the local economy, especially the building materials sector.

The government also targets to have one foreigner for every 10 technical staff working on the railway.

“We are going to have all the cement for the project procured locally. We have met them (steel rollers) and they are ready to supply the steel,” project coordinator Kasingye Kyamugambi said.

Among the companies that will benefit from the affirmative action are Hima Cement, Roofings Uganda, Steel and Tube, and Madhavani Steel.

African countries have tried in vain to enforce local content provisions on Chinese infrastructure builders with the firms often saying locally produced materials are not of the quality required to ensure safety of roads, bridges, railways or buildings.

Uganda cement, steel firms eye $700m SGR deals
 
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Uganda plans to refocus its efforts on revamping its metre gauge railway in the medium term as Kenya’s delay in raising financing for the Kisumu-Malaba leg of its standard gauge railway will cause Uganda to defer its plans for at least three years.

The EastAfrican has learnt that although the two countries have already agreed to synchronise their projects, the process is still riddled with challenges that will hold back building the $2.3 billion standard gauge railway from Malaba to Kampala.


READ: Museveni clears $2.9b China loan for Malaba-Kampala SGR

Mr Muhakanizi could not give details of how much money government intends to use to revamp the existing railway, currently operating by Rift Valley Railways, but he insisted that the 2018/19 budget will provide funds for this purpose.

Not in good shape'


The 273km Malaba-Kampala section of Uganda’s SGR, which terminates at Bukasa Port near Port Bell, is part of the Northern Corridor Infrastructure Projects; the other sections in Uganda will link it with South Sudan at Nimule border post, the Democratic Republic of Congo at two border posts of Vurra in northern Uganda, and Mpondwe in the south west.

The Ugandan SGR is a $12.8 billion project that will cover 1,724km. President Yoweri Museveni last month held a meeting with his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta on the seamless connectivity of the two countries’ multibillion projects With government seemingly in favour of the SGR project over the dilapidated metre gauge railway, it also emerges that top officials and state agencies are fighting over the implementation of Uganda’s SGR, and that there are attempts to move it away from its current Secretariat and hand it to URC.
 
Niksta254 said:
Uganda SGR boss drives local content campaign
Uganda has set a high bar on local content for the Chinese contractor picked to build its standard gauge railway as it seeks dividends for industries and workers from the $2.3 billion investment.

The government official in charge of the project that will be financed by the China Export Import bank said the government expected nearly a third of the project sum — $700 million — to be used to spur the local economy, especially the building materials sector.

The government also targets to have one foreigner for every 10 technical staff working on the railway.

“We are going to have all the cement for the project procured locally. We have met them (steel rollers) and they are ready to supply the steel,” project coordinator Kasingye Kyamugambi said.

Among the companies that will benefit from the affirmative action are Hima Cement, Roofings Uganda, Steel and Tube, and Madhavani Steel.

African countries have tried in vain to enforce local content provisions on Chinese infrastructure builders with the firms often saying locally produced materials are not of the quality required to ensure safety of roads, bridges, railways or buildings.

Uganda cement, steel firms eye $700m SGR deals
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President Museveni said Uganda willrevamp its metre gauge railway in the medium term as it awaits construction of the standard gauge line.

Construction of the SGR has been hit by funding delays.


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Uuuh Pink elephant is getting fatter day by day, I told people this Uhuru sgr is the one massive pink elephant in the living room,

From the day I saw the promised "advanced" trains and electrification blah blah that day I concluded my case wakenya wanapigwa kila kona, Uhuru will keep milking this dried cow until forefa
 
Naton Jr said:
Pink elephant is getting fatter day by day, I told people this Uhuru sgr is the one massive pink elephant in the living room,

From the day I saw the promised "advanced" trains and electrification blah blah that day I concluded my case wakenya wanapigwa kila kona, Uhuru will keep milking this dried cow until forever.
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keeping hoping and dreaming... malizzni yenu ya wakanda... mbuzi wewe... DUUUUHHHHHHH
 
Niksta254 said:
Uganda plans to refocus its efforts on revamping its metre gauge railway in the medium term as Kenya’s delay in raising financing for the Kisumu-Malaba leg of its standard gauge railway will cause Uganda to defer its plans for at least three years.

The EastAfrican has learnt that although the two countries have already agreed to synchronise their projects, the process is still riddled with challenges that will hold back building the $2.3 billion standard gauge railway from Malaba to Kampala.


READ: Museveni clears $2.9b China loan for Malaba-Kampala SGR

Mr Muhakanizi could not give details of how much money government intends to use to revamp the existing railway, currently operating by Rift Valley Railways, but he insisted that the 2018/19 budget will provide funds for this purpose.

Not in good shape'


The 273km Malaba-Kampala section of Uganda’s SGR, which terminates at Bukasa Port near Port Bell, is part of the Northern Corridor Infrastructure Projects; the other sections in Uganda will link it with South Sudan at Nimule border post, the Democratic Republic of Congo at two border posts of Vurra in northern Uganda, and Mpondwe in the south west.

The Ugandan SGR is a $12.8 billion project that will cover 1,724km. President Yoweri Museveni last month held a meeting with his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta on the seamless connectivity of the two countries’ multibillion projects With government seemingly in favour of the SGR project over the dilapidated metre gauge railway, it also emerges that top officials and state agencies are fighting over the implementation of Uganda’s SGR, and that there are attempts to move it away from its current Secretariat and hand it to URC.
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Uganda has spoken, they can NOT be bullied to take over estimated loans.

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