Freight

Mombasa – Nairobi standard gauge freight service launched

By 2018-01-03T11:08:32

The first commercial freight train on the Standard Gauge Railway ran on January 1, carrying 104 containers from Mombasa to the Embakasi Inland Container Depot in Nairobi.

KENYA: The first commercial freight train on the Standard Gauge Railway ran from Mombasa to the Embakasi Inland Container Depot in Nairobi on January 1. The 52-wagon train carried 104 TEU, which the operator pointed out was ‘almost equivalent to the trucks operating daily on the Mombasa – Nairobi highway.’

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