Uganda announced the first phase of a railway designed to improve connections between the landlocked East African country and three of its neighbors will cost USD 2.3 billion, with Chinese contractors expected to begin construction in 2017.
China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is preparing to start building the 273-kilometer (170-mile) standard-gauge section that will link Uganda’s capital, Kampala, and the Kenyan border, a phase that will take 3 and a half years to complete, project coordinator Kasingye Kyamugambi said, according to Bloomberg.
Eventually, the East Africa Railway Masterplan will link Mombasa with other major east African cities such as Kampala, in Uganda, and Juba, in South Sudan.
Uganda, which plans to start producing oil by about 2020, is seeking to build a combined 1,724 kilometers of standard-gauge railway as part of a regional project eventually connecting the capitals of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan.
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