RIFT Valley Railways (RVR), the concessionaire which operates the 1900km metre-gauge network in Kenya and Uganda, has announced capital investment will exceed $US 100m this year.
GERMAN infrastructure consultant Gauff Ingenieure has been awarded a $US 8.6m contract to design the new standard-gauge railway line linking Uganda's capital Kampala with Kigali in Rwanda.
THE government of Uganda is planning to invite six Chinese companies to compete for contracts worth up to $US 8.3bn to expand the country's railway network.
THE Chinese premier Li Keqiang and the president of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta signed an agreement on May 11 for the construction of a 609km standard-gauge railway linking the port city of Mombasa to the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
UGANDAN president Mr Yoweri Musveni attended a ceremony in the northern town of Gulu on October 26 to mark the reopening of the Rift Valley Railways (RVR) line from Tororo near the Kenyan border, 18 years after services ceased.
RIFT Valley Railways (RVR), the concessionaire operating the 2352km Kenya-Uganda metre-gauge railway, has completed a 10-month project to repair a 73km stretch of the 530km Mombasa – Nairobi main line. Nevertheless, the Kenyan government is dissatisfied with RVR's performance.
RIFT Valley Railways (RVR) says it expects to begin test operation on its northern Uganda branch from Tororo near the Kenyan border to Pakwach on the northern shore of Lake Albert by the end of July, 18 years after services were suspended.
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has provided $US 500m to the East African Community (EAC), which covers Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, to roll out projects under its Railway Master Plan starting this year.
UGANDA's minister for public works, Mr John Byabagambi, says negotiations are in progress with China for a joint project to rehabilitate the country's 1240km metre-gauge network.