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Rail to help Kenya achieve higher economic growth

Victor Kabecha is a communications adviser at the China Road &Bridge Corporation (CRBC) Kenya.

Kenya's Vision 2030 goals could be realised before the target date if the current benefits accruing from the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) are anything to go by.

A year after its inauguration, the SGR is on the path to steering Kenya to greater heights of economic development. Nothing exemplifies this better than the fact that since July 10, 2018, SGR has been operating 14 freight trains daily between Nairobi and Mombasa.

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