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It's all systems go as Mombasa port gears up for SGR locomotives arrival

Journalists are shown a temporally Standard Guage Railway (SGR) line by the Kenya Ports Authority public relations officer Hajj Masemo during a tour at the port of Mombasa, January 08, 2017. The temporary SGR line will be used to off-load the eight SGR locomotive engines and be driven direct to the SGR marshalling yard where they will be received and commissioned by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure James Macharia on Wednesday. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD].

Preparations for the arrival of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) locomotives at the Mombasa Port are in high gear.

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has started modernising the Embakasi Inland Container Depot in readiness for arrival of the first batch of the locomotives ahead of the project’s commissioning.

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