Mombasa-Nairobi railway

The 471-kilometer-long Mombasa-Nairobi stretch is the first section of a planned East Africa railway network. Passenger trains will travel at 120 km/hour, while freight trains will run at 80 km/hour and be able to carry 25 million tons per year. Connecting Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, with Mombasa, the largest port in East Africa, this will be the first rail link conforming to Chinese standards ever built outside of China. It will also be the first new rail line in Kenya in a century.

The project started in October 2014, and the railway is scheduled to open to traffic on June 1, 2017. Once in service, it will cut the travel time from Mombasa to Nairobi from over ten hours to a little more than four hours.

A long-term masterplan envisions a rail system serving six East African countries, namely – Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. This modern network will help promote economic development in East Africa and beyond. Statistics indicate that construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi section has created nearly 30,000 jobs in Kenya and boosted annual GDP growth by 1.5 percent. The cost of movement of goods is expected to be reduced by 40 percent after the completion of this initial project.

蒙內鐵路

蒙內鐵路是東非鐵路網的起始段，全長471公里，設計運力2500萬噸，設計客運時速120公里、貨運時速80公里，連接肯尼亞首都內羅畢和東非第一大港蒙巴薩港，是首條在海外全部采用“中國標準”建造的鐵路。因為是肯尼亞百年來修建的第一條新鐵路，所以有該國“世紀鐵路”之稱。該鐵路于2014年10月正式開工建設，預計2017年6月1日開通試運行。建成后，蒙巴薩到內羅畢將從目前的10多個小時縮短到4個多小時。根據遠期規劃，該鐵路將連接肯尼亞、坦桑尼亞、烏干達、盧旺達、布隆迪和南蘇丹等東非6國，促進東非現代化鐵路網的形成和地區經濟發展。據統計，蒙內鐵路建設期間，為肯尼亞帶來近3萬個就業機會，年均拉動國內生產總值增長1.5%。建成后，當地物流成本可以降低40%。