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Bleak future as fears over SGR freight business take over in Coast

President Uhuru Kenyatta flags off the first ever Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line cargo train loaded with 99 containers at the port of Mombasa, May 30, 2017. [Photo by Gideon Maundu/Standard]

On Monday, the first Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) freight hurtled its way from Mombasa with hundreds of containers and in its midst stoking fears among freight business agents.

Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho says the SGR freight trains, the Naivasha dry port and Embakasi inland container depot (ICD) would affect the multi-billion shilling container freight station business in Mombasa.

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