when the mombasa nairobi railway line opened 2 years ago the president hailed it there now as. but many freight operators have shunned it moving a container between the ports and the capital cost $800.00 us dollars with a truck the train costs $1200.00 making food and other goods more expensive it also takes a lot of time for importers to get their goods cleared at the jesters nairobi trained . they might have to get used to that because now they will have to use the train service kenya owes the chinese lend the ex-im bank $6500000000.00 for the railway and other projects that's about a 10th of its national debt. kenya railways says the high of freight charges are necessary to meet the loan repayments china has sought to allay fears that its infrastructure projects overload some countries with debt last year a degree to restructure more than 12000000000 dollars in repayments owed by ethiopia whose chinese funded railway is also struggling now some kenyan politicians are asking whether their one so promising railway was worth the cost. i guess only time will tell and that's all

time to board the mombasa nairobi standard gauge railway or s.g.r. kenya's most expensive infrastructure project that is says between kenya's capital nairobi and the port city mumbai just under 500 kilometers and 2 years ago in 2017 this journey that we're on would have taken up to 10 hours in fact some passengers on the train see that up to 24 hours have been spent trying to bridge that gap between these 2 cities. towns. ed very fast was on red a fast. phase 2 is bound to happen which means that the standard gauge will be will be running across the country of kenya and eventually leading up to our regional partners uganda and eventually south sudan opening up the region to trade and movement of persons the railway was built by chinese contractors and financed largely by chinese loans that poses a debt burden. putting all this together hasn't come to cheap $3800000000.00 kenya has had to fork out in order to get this done and the tricky thing is 90 percent of that funding came from the china eggs in bank the foreign investors celebrate the results in