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(nèi)鐵路
蒙內(nèi)鐵路是東非鐵路網(wǎng)的起始段，全長(zhǎng)471公里，設(shè)計(jì)運(yùn)力2500萬(wàn)噸，設(shè)計(jì)客運(yùn)時(shí)速120公里、貨運(yùn)時(shí)速80公里，連接肯尼亞首都內(nèi)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(guó)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)”建造的鐵路。因?yàn)槭强夏醽啺倌陙?lái)修建的第一條新鐵路，所以有該國(guó)“世紀(jì)鐵路”之稱(chēng)。該鐵路于2014年10月正式開(kāi)工建設(shè)，預(yù)計(jì)2017年6月1日開(kāi)通試運(yùn)行。建成后，蒙巴薩到內(nèi)羅畢將從目前的10多個(gè)小時(shí)縮短到4個(gè)多小時(shí)。根據(jù)遠(yuǎn)期規(guī)劃，該鐵路將連接肯尼亞、坦桑尼亞、烏干達(dá)、盧旺達(dá)、布隆迪和南蘇丹等東非6國(guó)，促進(jìn)東非現(xiàn)代化鐵路網(wǎng)的形成和地區(qū)經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展。據(jù)統(tǒng)計(jì)，蒙內(nèi)鐵路建設(shè)期間，為肯尼亞帶來(lái)近3萬(wàn)個(gè)就業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)，年均拉動(dòng)國(guó)內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值增長(zhǎng)1.5%。建成后，當(dāng)?shù)匚锪鞒杀究梢越档?0%。
