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Kampala turns to Plan B for SGR

News10 Feb 2023

The government of Uganda has cancelled its 2015 contract with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to build the next section of the stan...

News21 Nov 2022

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 th...

News26 Apr 2022

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

News11 Jan 2020

The Kenyan port of Mombasa handled a record 1,425,000 TEU last year, a 7.3% rise on the 2018 figure and ahead of the target set by the Kenya...

News17 Aug 2019

The government of Kenya has backtracked on a recent decree that all cargo imports transported from Mombasa to Nairobi and beyond should be c...

News6 Aug 2019

The Kenyan government has issued a Directive to transfer all imported cargo from Mombasa to Nairobi through the Standard Gauge Railway...

News14 Oct 2018

Kenya is the first country in Africa to introduce double stack container rail services. Kenya Railways will double stack containers on train...

News1 May 2018

Kenya’s new standard gauge railway (SGR) is currently being extended into the heart of the Port of Mombasa...

News1 Sep 2017

At the end of August, the Port of Mombasa received two new portal-mounted mobile harbour cranes costing KES868M (US$8.7M), including two new...

News1 Jan 2017

Pictured is the first shipment of eight locomotives and rolling stock for Kenya’s new Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) being unloaded to a tem...

News22 Feb 2016

The Shippers Council of Eastern Africa has published details of container handling charges at Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, revealing massive i...

News1 Jul 2015

Work has begun on a new railway terminal at the Kenyan port of Mombasa. China Road and Bridge Corporation is reclaiming 13.3 acres of land a...

News22 Jun 2015

The British Government's Department for International Development (DfID) has agreed to make a grant of a further £23M (US$36.5M) towards th...

News1 Dec 2014

The World Bank has announced it will provide US$1.2B to support infrastructure development and improve the competitiveness of the East Afric...

News1 May 2014

The Chinese government has agreed to finance the construction of a new standard gauge rail link from the Kenyan port of Mombasa westwards to...