Uganda has begun restoring a branch of a century-old, British-built railway line that is expected to cut the cost of shipping goods to the country's north, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, a railway spokesperson said.
The line, which has been out of use for roughly 40 years, is part of the East Africa rail network that stretches from Kenya's Indian Ocean seaport of Mombasa. It was built by Kenya and Uganda's former colonial ruler Britain around the beginning of the 20th-century.
Uganda decided to revamp the old network after plans to build a separate modern standard gauge railway failed to secure financing from China.a contract with China Harbour and Engineering Company Ltd to build the $2.2 billion SGR and is seeking a new contractor. The 382 km section of the line to be repaired connects Tororo town in Uganda's east near the border with Kenya and terminates at a logistics hub in Gulu in Uganda's north near the border with South Sudan.
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