construct in 42 months with 90 % financing from China Export- Import Bank , has been allocated 40 % of the entire Mombasa port and expanded the capacity to move containers and general cargo from the site , which is the biggest port in Eastern Africa . The port serves the landlocked countries of Uganda , Rwanda , Burundi and parts of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo .
The new SGR line , which has an axle loading of 25 tonnes compared to 16 tonnes for the century-old metre gauge line , will serve freight trains with
‘ The freight train service is expected to reduce the cost of doing business in East Africa because it will bring down the charges for transporting a TEU or 20-tonne container ’
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