Daily Monitor
Saturday May 15 2021
The inland container depot in Naivasha, Kenya, where an interchange linking the standard gauge and metre gauge railway lines is being developed to create a seamless passage of goods from the port of Mombasa to the Great Lakes region through Uganda. PHOTO/FILE/NMG
Summary
In May last year, President Museveni argued that increasingly cargo should be shifted from road to the railway, because of its low cost and the high maintenance costs of road networks due to the heavy toll by trucks.
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With an eye on the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan markets, there is renewed vibrancy on the Northern Corridor, as Uganda and Kenya join forces to push the rehabilitation and seamless connection of the old metre gauge railway line, over which the two countries’ officials met this week to thrash out operational details.
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