The Kenyan government has anticipated the SGR to boost Kenya's GDP by 1.5 percentage points annually, promote industrialization and bring in investment along the route by reducing the cost of transportation.Д¦. The SGR line runs largely in parallel with the Nairobi-Mombasa sections of the meter-gauge railway built between 19 during the colonial era.ДҐ.

The designed speeds for passenger trains on the SGR line are 120 km/h and 80 km/h for freight trains.Д¤. Construction of the railway began in December 2014 with China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) being the contractor.ДЈ. dollars, which makes it Kenya's largest infrastructure project since its independence.Дў. The 480-km SGR stretches from the port of Mombasa to Kenya's capital Nairobi, involving a total investment of 3.8 billion U.S. Xinhua offers eight sets of figures on what the railway is:ДЎ. NAIROBI, May 30 (Xinhua) - Kenya will begin operations on the Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Wednesday in a drive to revolutionize its transportation sector and speed up industrialization.

The 480 km railway linking Kenya's largest port city Mombasa to capital Nairobi, slated to be officially launched on May 31, will be a key infrastructure project that will push forward the East Africa nation's modernization drive, a senior company executive said Monday. A train runs on Kenya's Mombasa-Nairobi Railway on May 29, 2017.

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