KENYAN GOVT URGED TO USE RAIL
Posted on 26 June 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
The Kenya National Highways Authority (KenHA) has asked the government to revive the “dormant” Kenya-Uganda railway to improve the transport of bulk goods from the port of Mombasa. Briefing the press at Molo during a weekend tour of road projects in the Rift Valley area during June, board chair Mrs Hannah Muriithi and director general Meshack Kidenda expressed concern at the under utilisation of the line – the most efficient method of moving heavy cargo. The use of rail, they pointed out, would reduce the incidence of accidents and the theft of goods in transit.
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