Recently, Henry Musasizi, Uganda's Minister of State and Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, led a 16-member Ugandan parliamentary delegation to the Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) for an investigation tour. Phillip Mainga, Managing Director of Kenya Railways Corporation, accompanied the tour.

Musasizi (Third from left), Mainga (Second from left)

The delegation first went to Maai Mahiu Station to visit the newly built passenger transfer meter gauge platform and other supporting equipment and facilities, and then took the train to Naivasha ICD to visit the freight transfer business.

The delegation fully affirmed the SGR's meter gauge replacement work, and believed that it can effectively reduce logistics costs and shorten logistics time, adding that it not only optimizes the structure of the Kenyan regional railway network, but also establishes a railway transportation channel between Kenya and Uganda, which is conducive to promoting trade between the two countries and regional economic development.

The replacement business at the Naivasha ICD station of the Kenya Standard Gauge Railway has established the only international railway transportation channel between the Kenya's Mombasa port and Uganda, Rwanda, the Congo Republic and other East African inland countries. The completion of the replacement of standard gauge railways and meter gauge railways for all import and export containers at the Naivasha ICD station has realized the cross-border sea-rail combined transportation of import and export containers.