US$30b of rail projects spanning 11,000km being built in Africa
Railway infrastructure is vital to improve trade between African countries
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Johannesburg
ON a sweltering Kenyan morning on the outskirts of a national wildlife park, Chinese and local workers manoeuvre a massive concrete rail bridge structure onto towering support piers. In the distance, trucks loaded with shipping containers rumble down a highway.
The bridge at Voi, north-west of the port of Mombasa, is the latest construction frontline for the initial 327 billion shilling (S$4.4 billion) stretch of an ambitious railway project to link the East African country with landlocked neighbours including Rwanda and Uganda. As a faster alternative to the trucks clogging the only road running inland to the capital, the Chinese-built and financed standard-gauge railway, known as the SGR, has the potential to transform trade in the region.
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