SGR, port efficiency boost Nairobi depot cargo 62%

[John Ashworth]

SGR, port efficiency boost Nairobi depot cargo 62%

Cargo handled at the Inland Container Deport-Nairobi(ICDN) grew 62.4 per cent in 2019, latest data show, buoyed by high train turnaround on the Standard Gauge Railway and improved port efficiency.

The ICDN operations performance report shows a total of 418,830 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUS) were handled in the year to December, 160,858 TEUs more than the 257,972 TEUs handled in 2018.

“This has been achieved as a result of improved efficiency along the logistics chain from Mombasa to ICDN,” Nairobi ICD manager Peter Masinde told the Star.

According to KPA, logistic improvement was realised mainly on modernized cargo handling capacity, growing rail freight services and reduced cargo dwell-time...