Overview
Indicators on performance of the transport and communications sector show, in creased activity for almost all sub-sectors in 2003. However, real output growth from the sector was 8.7 per cent compared to 24.3 per cent expansion recorded in the previous year. This was as a result of the economic depression that prevailed in the country due to the political transition.
Source: Economic Survey 2004
Roads
An effective road transportation network is an important factor both in economic and social development.  Whereas, there may be small areas with insufficient density of classified roads, the coverage of Kenya’s road network is generally adequate to support the present level and type of economic activity.
Railways
Kenya Railways is a State Corporation, which was established in 1978 through an Act of Parliament and came into being when its forerunner the East African Railways Corporation ceased to exist as a result of the collapse of the East African Community.  The railway line in Kenya is over 2,000 km. long and links with both Uganda and Tanzania Railways.   The Kenya Railways is in both freight and passenger transportation business.  It also operates both freight and passenger vessels on Lake Victoria.  Freight business constitutes over 80% of the Kenya Railways revenue.
Maritime
Kenya’s marine transport activities are concentrated in Mombasa on the Indian Ocean Seaport and at Kisumu on Lake Victoria.  Mombasa is the only major seaport through which all of Kenya’s and quite an appreciable amount of other Eastern African Countries international trade are routed.  Her hinterland includes Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Eastern Zaire, Southern Sudan, North Eastern Tanzania, Somalia and Ethiopia.
Civil Aviation
The Civil Aviation Sector in Kenya has grown steadily over the years. The Government’s Commitment to continue providing the necessary infrastructure to rehabilitate airports to cope with the increasing passenger and air traffic growth will further propel air transport to greater development heights and modernize Air Navigation facilities.
Meteorological Services
The history of Meteorological Department in Kenya can be traced back to 1929, when the British East Africa Meteorological Services was formed. In 1967, with the formation of the East African Community, the Department was absorbed as an organ of the community and, was then known as the East African Meteorological Department.

ICT
The Kenya Government recognizes that ICT development holds the key to our economy’s development. This is because the availability of an efficient telecommunications services provides the impulse for the development of various sector of the economy including agriculture, tourism, and finance among others.

Sector profile Infrastructure (417kb)

Investment opportunities in infrastructure
ICT sub-sector profile (691 kb) courtesy EPZA KENYA
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