In Bungoma, the government intends to establish a new dry port, according to National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula.
Wetangula added that he and President William Ruto have decided to move forward with the project to make it easier to clear cargo and move commodities between the neighboring nations.
"We have a 150-acre piece of land here owned by the Kenya Ports Authority and we are going to put up the dry port," he said.
Wetangula also pledged his support for developing an SGR line from Bungoma to Malaba during his speech on Saturday at Teso North.
The Speaker states that the railway line will be built by the original plan.
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He added that the line would go all the way to Iteso to support local economic growth and give young people jobs.
"The previous administration altered the route such that it could not pass here but we have reversed it and so construction will now continue from Naivasha where it stopped to Malaba using the old design," he said.
Phase 2A of the project, which is 120 km long and costs Sh150 billion, extends from Nairobi to Naivasha, while phase 1 of the project, which is 485 km long, begins in Mombasa and ends in Nairobi.
China Road and Bridge Construction (CRBC) was in charge of it.
The project's Phase 2B was planned to travel through Kericho, Bomet, Narok, and Kisumu counties.
It involved building a port at Lake Victoria, costing Sh350 billion, with most of the money coming from China's Exim Bank.
An agreement between Kenya and Uganda has already been inked to develop and fund the Malaba-Kampala and the Naivasha-Kisumu-Malaba SGRs.
The government intends to invest Sh2.1 trillion on two railway projects, one connecting Suswa to Malaba and the other to Isiolo. Both projects are scheduled for completion in 2027.
The project will be undertaken in each of their countries, according to the communiqué.
"The commercial contracts for Naivasha-Kisumu and Kisumu-Malaba SGR section in Kenya have been signed while the commercial contract for Malaba-Kampala SGR section in Uganda will be signed soon and the two governments are in the process of mobilising the financing for construction," a joint statement by respective ministers read.
Uganda is on track to quickly finalize the contract for the Malaba-Kampala stretch, while Kenya has already inked commercial contracts for its share of the SGR portions.
