Uganda, Turkey’s Yapi Merkezi ink deal build electric standard gauge railway
Workers lay tracks for the standard gauge railway Phase 2A at Suswa, Kenya on August 1, 2018. Uganda has signed a new contract for the construction of the Malaba-Kampala phase.
Uganda’s government and Turkish construction firm Yapi Merkezi signed a contract to build a 272-kilometre section of railway, in a bid to boost regional trade, a Ugandan official said on Monday.
Uganda’s Standard Gauge Railway project coordinator, Perez Wamburu, said the agreement was for the first section of a planned 1,700km electric rail line, and the segment would cost 2.7 billion euros ($3 billion).
