Chinese land another lucrative rail contract

The Transport and Infrastructure CS James Macharia during a tour to inspect progress of SGR project at Athi River. The government has said that the project will be run by Chinese contractors for the next five years.

Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) contractor, the China Road and Bridge Corporation, will remain in Kenya for another five years after the project is complete.

Transport CS James Macharia has said that the Government is inching closer to signing an agreement that will see the current contractor engaged in supervising the operations of SGR for the first five years of its operation. Since the next phase running from Nairobi to Naivasha is expected to be complete next year, the Chinese contractors may be here up to 2022.