Kenya, Tanzania Sign New Cross-Border Infrastructure Pact
The agreement covers a joint railway feasibility study and simplified customs procedures at key border posts.
Kenya and Tanzania have signed a new infrastructure cooperation agreement covering a feasibility study for a cross-border railway link and streamlined customs procedures at the Namanga and Horohoro border posts.
The deal is part of a broader East African push to reduce the cost and time of moving goods across the region, an issue that has long affected Uganda's import and export trade given its reliance on the Mombasa and Dar es Salaam corridors.
Trade officials say a functioning single customs territory could cut cargo clearance times by up to 40 percent.
Construction, if approved, would not begin before 2028, according to officials familiar with the study's timeline.
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