SGR service uptake growing, expected to pay for loans in the long run

About two years since actual operations started on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line between Mombasa and Nairobi and the three-letter abbreviation became entrenched in daily Kenyan lexicon, it is an opportune time to take stock of the phenomenal success the service has registered.

The biggest indicator of this success is the fact that in the last three months, the trains operating on the SGR line have attained the initial break-even projections, bringing in 258 freight trains by transiting 23,522 twenty-foot equivalent. This success has been evident both on the passenger and freight components, the latter service having started only in January last year.