More wagons point to fresh push for SGR use in Kenya
The newly acquired 50 Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Freight Service Wagons at Port Reitz Freight Station in Mombasa, Kenya in this photo taken on February 5, 2024. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NMG
Some 430 wagons arrived in Kenya early this week, barely two weeks after another 50 were commissioned at the port of Mombasa, signalling the government’s new bid to boost railway cargo volumes.
Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) says this new batch will raise its wagons to 1,900 and help in meeting its target to ferry more than 11 million tonnes annually to Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo via SGR from Mombasa to Naivasha and to Malaba via the metre gauge railway.
