The Kenyan government confirmed on Thursday that construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) aimed at providing efficient and cost-effective rail transport for both freight and passengers, is on course. China has agreed to fund the first phase of a standard gauge railway line linking the East African nation’s port city of Mombasa to Uganda, Burundi and South Sudan. The Exim Bank of China will fund 90 percent of the 3.6 billion U.S. dollars for the first phase of the project, which will cover 485 kilometers from the port of Mombasa to Nairobi. The Kenyan government will provide the remainder of the funding, the Kenyan president office said in a news release. Passenger trains will have a speed of 120 kilometers per hour while those for freight will be designed to move at 80 kilometers an hour.
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