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Kenya's Chinese-built Mombasa-Nairobi railway to open in 2017, not 2016
TRACKS for the Chinese funded rapid rail linking Mombasa to Nairobi will be laid by the end of next year and be open to traffic in June 2017, said Kenya Railways managing director Atanas Maina.
"We're ahead of schedule," he said referring to the new schedule which included recent delays. "There's been a lot of push for land acquisition, there's been very heavy mobilisation, and the funding has gone very well."
After the Mombasa-Nairobi rail link is built, lines will be extended to the Ugandan capital of Kampala and other land-locked states, Reuters reports.
Kenya had aimed to complete 40 per cent of the infrastructure, track laying and fixing bridges, by January. Now half the job should be done by then.
Mr Maina said he hoped to have a private management company in place by mid-2016.
A transaction adviser will be in place by the end of September to help select a private management firm for the line, he said, adding selection would be done by mid-2016.
When the narrow-gauge line was built in the 19th century, it was dubbed the Lunatic Express, as critics decried the rising expense and cost in lives as many workers were killed by lions.
"We're ahead of schedule," he said referring to the new schedule which included recent delays. "There's been a lot of push for land acquisition, there's been very heavy mobilisation, and the funding has gone very well."
After the Mombasa-Nairobi rail link is built, lines will be extended to the Ugandan capital of Kampala and other land-locked states, Reuters reports.
Kenya had aimed to complete 40 per cent of the infrastructure, track laying and fixing bridges, by January. Now half the job should be done by then.
Mr Maina said he hoped to have a private management company in place by mid-2016.
A transaction adviser will be in place by the end of September to help select a private management firm for the line, he said, adding selection would be done by mid-2016.
When the narrow-gauge line was built in the 19th century, it was dubbed the Lunatic Express, as critics decried the rising expense and cost in lives as many workers were killed by lions.
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