NAIROBI, KENYA: Regional rail operator, Rift Valley Railways (RVR) will on Friday flag off the first shipment of 120 new train wagons from the port of Mombasa signaling the end of the capital expenditure as RVR shifts focus to meet market demand.
The wagons are part of 480 wagons purchased from China CNR Corporation earlier this year and will see the tonnage capacity increase by 50 percent. The wagons will see the fleet size increase and move up to 60 tonnes on each wagon compared to 40 tons allowed in the current wagon fleet.
The wagons will benefit the whole of East Africa and boast the economy and at the same time ease distant bulk transportation and save the economies from the heavy investment channeled towards road repairs.
Rift Valley Railways has the concession to run the railway system between Kenya and Uganda has been rolling out massive investment programme aimed at overhauling and rehabilitating the track and acquiring new locomotives and wagons.
