Trade-naissance Railways: Tracking East Africa’s trade renaissance
By Loza Seleshie
Posted on Thursday, 24 March 2022 14:43
East African policy-makers are dreaming of a return to the golden days of rail transport, with smooth-operating corridors linking hinterland to the sea.
Years ago, the governments of Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Dodoma pitched Beijing about rail corridors to tie together the region’s economies with new standard gauge railways (SGRs). But after the profitability of the Kenyan line raised questions about the viability of connections farther inland, governments are working on other ways to raise the share of freight transported over rail, which has dropped from 70%-80% in the 1970s to 5% in 2019.
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