Local engineers in Kenya expected to play key role in flagship projects
Local engineers in Kenya expected to play key role in flagship projects
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Kenya plans to modernize its aviation facilities to improve passenger-handling capacity to nine million, Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary James Macharia has said. The government will also expand railway transport to increase the railway capacity to 50% of the cargo freight from the port of Mombasa and promote commuter rail services.
Macharia, whose docket also includes housing, urban development and public works, further said that shipping and maritime facilities will be improved to facilitate the trans-shipment of cargo.
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Macharia Kamau |
March 6th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Transport CS James Macharia and Kenya Railways Managing Director Philip Mainga (left) in one of the classes as they inspected Railways Training Institute s newly constructed classes and laboratories. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]
The Government has refurbished the Railways Training Institute (RTI) as it prepares to take over management of the Standard Gauge Railway.
Kenya Railways has started taking over the running of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), which has been operated by Afristar, a subsidiary of China Road and Bridge Corporation since its commissioning in mid 2017 at a monthly fee of Sh1 billion.
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February 18th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
From left: CSs Najib Balala (Tourism), Eugene Wamalwa (Devolution), James Macharia (Transport) and Betty Maina (Industrialisation). They inspected the new Metre Gauge Railway at Longonot in Nakuru County on Tuesday. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
Amid clamour for a referendum and succession politics, President Uhuru Kenyatta has dispatched Cabinet secretaries to secure his legacy development agenda.
President Kenyatta, whose tenure expires in 18 months, has constituted National Development Implementation and Communication Cabinet Committee (NDICCC) comprising Cabinet secretaries and Presidential Delivery Unit (PDU).
The top-ranking government officials have been asked to leave the comfort of their air-conditioned offices in Nairobi and visit project sites to obtain firsthand information.
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