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Kenya is set to receive 10 freight train carriages from China.

Already, the Chinese government has deployed the ships from Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province,.

"The carriages, produced by CRRC Qiqihar railway stock corporation, will be delivered to Kenya by ship via Dalian, a port city in Liaoning province," a Chinese official I quoted by the-star.

The corporation received orders totaling 1,000 carriages for the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, a 480-km line operating from May 31.

The $3.8-billion project was constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation, with 90 per cent funded by China.