Charges up in East Africa

The government of Uganda has cancelled its 2015 contract with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to build the next section of the standard gauge railway (SGR) from Malaba on the Kenyan border to the Ugandan capital Kampala

The Kenyan government has released some details of the US$3B loans it took out with China Export Import Bank (China Exim Bank) to finance the construction of two phases of the Standard Gauge Railway

The Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam has again been hit by congestion, with vessels diverted to Mombasa in Kenya through much of April

There have been conflicting reports from East Africa about how smoothly the Port of Mombasa is functioning.

The new president of Tanzania has announced that her government will seek to restart the stalled project to build a new port at Bagamoyo. Samia Suluhu Hassan, who became the country’s first female president after the previous incumbent, John Magufuli, died in March, has sought to revive several big infrastructure projects.

Three new ZPMC low-profile cranes are on their way from Shanghai to Boston, US. The cranes were ordered by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) as part of the redevelopment of its Conley Container Terminal.