owned by Star of Africa Railway Company. tano tena. kumira kumira. deni lazima ilipwo
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Are you sure?
Hii ni uwongo tupu!
According to the news TZ is investing in a high speed electric train line going into Kigali and Uganda, which is understandable that Uganda withdrew from the Kenyan arrangement, the line will be faster and hence compensate for the longer distance.
See below Ethiopia underground electric line train. Ethiopia is the only country in the region with an electric rail line built by the Chinese government. 756 km rail line between Addis Ababa and Djibouti costs $4 billion.
The blinder that is the soul of corruption will be our unravelling; soon Kenya will be the only third world nation in the region. We cannot blame the Chinese for our old trains, they didn’t dupe the Ethiopians. Tz will most likely get a more elegant train. The person from TZ once posted the design on Ktalk.
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How will Tanzania fund the project?
Funding is a Tanzania affair.
Ethiopia has already completed and organised the funding - The New electric train for Ethiopia slashes journey times from 7 days to 10 hours, is a worth investment.
Tz line is longer, apparently will cost half the price of the Kenyan one - https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001256729/tanzania-building-electric-rail-at-half-price-of-kenya-s-diesel-standard-gauge-railway-line
grandiose plans are well and good. but actualization is another thing. i also wonder where tz will source a stable dedicated electric power source for their train.
Waambie watu ukweli. Kwani hizi Chinese bullet trains ni toys zenye zitanunuliwa kwa nusu ya gharama yenye Kenya walinunua zao? How much does a Chinese bullet train cost? Tuanzie hapo…
Where will the line enter into Uganda? And will it be a cargo or a passenger rail?
There is more than one map out there,
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Chinese firms win $9bn Tanzanian rail scheme amid East African transport boom - Global Construction Review
Hizi ni hekaya za abunuwasi, Tanzania doesn’t have the electrical capacity to build a high speed rail. Plus it would cost at least $10 billion to finish such a long line, which is 90% of their yearly budget.
Neither Kenya, Tanzania or Ethiopia’s new railway lines are high speed rail. Neither Kenya or Tanzania have enough power to run electric powered and Ethiopia’s railway constantly gets power shortages. In addition Ethiopia’s railway is a lower classification than Kenya’s line and in the two years that Tanzania has been supposedly building a self funded railway, they have nothing to show for it other than a couple of beams.
waswahili walisema ,heri nusu ya shari kuliko shari kamili
That question can only be answered by the Chinese.
Generally the Chinese government tend to own the entire process of most things within China. The government buys bulk raw materials are lower cost, designs and builds. No middlemen contract negotiators to their multiplier profit x2, hence cost in not as high. They also have a large labour force, they don’t outsource to external consultants who charge exorbitant consultancy fees.
China is changing most of the rail and trains at fast speed, like wise construction of new airports.
The owners of the new Kenya railwat have recently appointment their CEO, why we wonder we cannot look at Safaricom. A double dupted nation.
kenyan sgr railway is owned by a company called "star of africa railway. thats wat they wont tell you.
I am really amused by how my fellow Kenyans are busy arguing with no facts. Tafadhali, lets not be ignorant of facts. Whiel arguing, its important to base your arguments on facts. Tanzania cannot and will not build an electric train. They are too poor to do that, China is unwilling to fund the project as it costs a very big percentage of their annual budget. Its true, billions of money was looted from our own SGR, but the fact remains, once the project is completed all the way to Busia border, all those countries i.e Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi will all be importing through the port of Mombasa. The Tanzanian SGR will only reach a place called Morogoro, some distance from Dar. There are no plans to extend the non-existent railway to other parts of the country. As for Ethiopia, I dont have a lot of facts on them.
Kindly correct your post. The pictures show the addis ababa light train and not the addis-Djibouti locomotives which travel at the same speed as Kenya’s diesel.
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Be prepared not to wake up one day and be very shocked, Tz has a lot of gas and other minerals. If they don’ steal they can achieve a lot.
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Reuters Staff
DAR ES SALAAM, May 31 (Reuters) - Tanzania has awarded contracts to build new railway lines worth about $9 billion to Chinese firms, its transport minister said, expanding Beijing’s presence in East Africa’s second-biggest economy.
Transport Minister Samuel Sitta told parliament on Saturday a Chinese consortium had been awarded a contract to build a 2,561 km (1,536 miles) standard gauge railway connecting Dar es Salaam port to land-locked neighbours at a cost of $7.6 billion.
“A consortium of Chinese railway companies led by China Railway Materials (CRM) has been picked to help us build the railway line,” he said.
The consortium will provide 10 percent of the funding for the project while financial adviser Rothschild is finalising procedures for financing of the project through banks, Sitta said.
The minister said construction of the railway line was expected to start in June.
He said Tanzania had signed a framework agreement with another Chinese company, China Railway No.2 Engineering Group Co. Ltd., to build a railway line linking coal and iron ore mine projects, also under development by a Chinese group, to the southern port of Mtwara near big offshore natural gas discoveries.
The 1,000 km standard gauge railway line is expected to cost at least $1.4 billion, according to the Tanzanian government estimates.
Tanzania said in March it planned to spend $14.2 billion to construct a new rail network in the next five years financed with commercial loans, as the country aims to become a regional transport hub.
Tanzania, like its neighbour Kenya, wants to profit from its long coastline and upgrade existing railways and roads to serve growing economies in the land-locked heart of Africa.
Oil discoveries in Kenya and Uganda and gas finds in Tanzania have turned East Africa into an exploration hotspot for oil firms but transport infrastructure in those countries has suffered from decades of under-investment.
Tanzania last year signed an agreement with China Merchant Holding International (CMHI) to build a new mega port and economic zone at Bagamoyo expected to cost at least $10 billion.
China is also financing a $1.2 billion, 532 km (330 mile) natural gas pipeline in Tanzania. (Reporting by Fumbuka Ng’wanakilala. Editing by Jane Merriman