State offers more incentives to woo cargo owners to use SGR

Containers on board the Standard Guage Railway (SGR) Freight Train hauling sails along the Mwamdudu fly-over at Miritini headed to the port of Mombasa for export, January 08, 2018. This is the first SGR freight train hauling export cargo of 52 TEUs containers loaded with French beans, Coffee, wood carvings, hides and skin to be exported to Europe through the port of Mombasa. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD].

The Government is pulling all stops to get cargo owners to use Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) freight service and Nairobi’s Inland Container Depot. The latest move is the slashing of cargo handling fees at the depot in Embakasi.

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) yesterday reduced its cargo handling charges by as much as 23.5 per cent for cargo destined for the Kenyan market and by almost a third for goods that are being re-exported to other countries in the region.