[quote=hardwood]The Chinese contractor is fencing the railway but has run into problems with residents opposing the fencing of the railway corridor. The residents claim that fencing the corridor will interfere with their lifestyles and economic activities. They want to be basking and grazing on the railway.

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Spin it kabisa, nowhere is that documented boss!!!!

Just to digress a bit, for those who may have been lucky to visit Ethiopia, the Inter-City highways are fenced and it is a bliss to drive on them, with designated passes for the population. The minute you have a railway line where children play cha mama cha baba, wazee are on Ajua and mamas regularly do kamweretho besides the rail track, it will be disastrous.

Elsewhere, the evacuation of goods from Mombasa Port is set to take a radical turn with experts warning of “certain death” for container freight stations (CFS) as the standard gauge railways nears completion.

The privately owned CFS facilities where bulk, liquid and containerised goods have been kept upon offloading to help ease congestion at the port may no longer be necessary at all.

According to the Kenya Railways Chief Executive Atanas Maina, the Sh327 billion SGR which will accommodate 1,620 boxed and flat wagons pulled by 43 DF8B freight locomotives will be able to haul 100 times more containers to Nairobi and beyond in a day

Mr Maina said that each cargo locomotive (DF8B) was capable of towing 216 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) weighing an estimated 4,000 tonnes per trip and it is estimated that in top operation, the Mombasa Port will see 22 million tonnes cargo moved annually against the current 1.6 million.

Forget the talk by arm chair and keyboard analysts. Familiarize yourselves with the dutch project fyra and you'll understand why its important for the chinese to run the line.

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Joho is finished.

It's only in Africa where we build infrastructure to support our exports not imports