Cargo order hits Mombasa hard, as business booms in Nairobi depot

Cargo being offloaded at the Mombasa port. Kenya Railways has maintained change is inevitable and for the common good. [File, Standard]

The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has uprooted business from Mombasa to Nairobi’s Embakasi Inland Container Depot (ICD), disrupting the multi-billion-dollar logistics business.

This follows a directive requiring all import and export cargo to be transported via the SGR as part of Government efforts to aid Chinese investors to recoup the Sh327 billion investment in the railway project.