Uganda seals deal to rehabilitate Malaba-Kampala Railway

Uganda seals deal to rehabilitate Malaba-Kampala Railway
By Otiato Opali in Nairobi, Kenya |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2021-05-20 15:50
Uganda signed a $46.5 million deal with a Chinese firm on Tuesday to rehabilitate its 260-kilometer railway line between its border with Kenya at Malaba town and its capital, Kampala, in less than 12 months. This comes as Uganda and Kenya join forces to push the rehabilitation and seamless connection of the old meter gauge railway line, which is narrower than standard gauge railway, as Kenya continues revamping its meter gauge railway line from Naivasha to Malaba.
According to a report by Uganda's Parliament Committee on National Economy presented to parliament last week by Syda Bbumba, the committee's chairwoman, the Ugandan government also plans to purchase and rehabilitate coaches, wagons and locomotives, create a railway training school to equip Uganda Railway Corporation management and staff it with modern railway management skills and stock spare parts.

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