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Honeymoon over for SGR cargo shippers

A Cargo train carries wagons with containers headed to Mombasa from Nairobi. [Phillip Orwa/Standard]

It will be more costly to move cargo from Mombasa to Nairobi using the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) beginning next week following hiked charges by Kenya Railways.

Cargo owners will from January 1, 2019 pay double the amount they have been paying in 2018 as the railway operator reverts to the original rates, ending promotional charges implemented earlier this year.

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