Friends of the Rail Forum

For whatever reasons, termination of the standard gauge railway (SGR) at Naivasha was indeed premature as it should have gone all the way to Malaba or Kampala to maximise its cargo payload potential. A couple of weeks ago, the heads of state of Kenya and our neighbouring countries to the west agreed that transit imported cargo will be picked from the new Naivasha SGR Inland Container Depot(ICD) instead of Mombasa port.

Although it was expected that the transit cargo importers would accept to use Naivasha ICD as soon as it was completed, it has not happened that quickly. It has taken the intervention of Covid-19 crisis to prompt the heads of state to make it happen - one of the hundreds of situational changes that the virus has forced or persuaded the world to have to make...