High speed train right on track
In Summary
The journey to Mombasa from Nairobi will be just three hours
Imagine travelling at 160km per hour... in a train!
The prospect of this dream becoming a reality in Kenya grew on Monday when Kenya Railways Corporation advertised a tender for a standard gauge line to run from Mombasa to Malaba.
Such a line would shorten the train journey from Nairobi to Mombasa from 10 to only three hours.
Prospective transaction advisers and design consultants have until January 15, 2010, to forward their bids.
Assignment
Their proposed assignment includes project marketing, investor identification and supporting selection of consultants to monitor detailed design, building and commissioning of the railway.
“Construction is scheduled to commence in May 2011,” the corporation’s managing director, Mr Nduva Muli, said in a two-page paid up advertisement.
The railway line, which will stretch from Mombasa to Malaba on the Kenya/Uganda border with a branch to Kisumu, would see double-decker passenger trains introduced in the region.
According to the government’s timetable, the Mombasa-Nairobi section of the line will be complete by 2013, Nairobi-Kisumu by 2016, and Nairobi-Malaba by 2016.
“The government recognised the need to build the new modern railway in order to increase capacity and improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness and competitiveness of the transport sector,” the advertisement says.
The journey to Mombasa from Nairobi will be just three hours
Imagine travelling at 160km per hour... in a train!
The prospect of this dream becoming a reality in Kenya grew on Monday when Kenya Railways Corporation advertised a tender for a standard gauge line to run from Mombasa to Malaba.
Such a line would shorten the train journey from Nairobi to Mombasa from 10 to only three hours.
Prospective transaction advisers and design consultants have until January 15, 2010, to forward their bids.
Assignment
Their proposed assignment includes project marketing, investor identification and supporting selection of consultants to monitor detailed design, building and commissioning of the railway.
“Construction is scheduled to commence in May 2011,” the corporation’s managing director, Mr Nduva Muli, said in a two-page paid up advertisement.
The railway line, which will stretch from Mombasa to Malaba on the Kenya/Uganda border with a branch to Kisumu, would see double-decker passenger trains introduced in the region.
According to the government’s timetable, the Mombasa-Nairobi section of the line will be complete by 2013, Nairobi-Kisumu by 2016, and Nairobi-Malaba by 2016.
“The government recognised the need to build the new modern railway in order to increase capacity and improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness and competitiveness of the transport sector,” the advertisement says.
posted by Mwananchi at 9:16 PM
3 Comments:
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Top ODM leader explains why Kalonzo Musyoka is better than Raila
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