Kenya Railways and the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) have entered into a partnership which will see KTDA managed factories transport their produce via the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line from Nairobi to the Port of Mombasa for onward export. A statement to newsrooms indicates that under the partnership, tea from KTDA-managed factories will be […]
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Kenya Railways is refurbishing 31 locomotives to increase capacity of fleets along the Longonot- Malaba Metre Gauge Railway (MGR) section and the Nakuru-Kisumu MGR branch line, which are currently under rehabilitation. Speaking on Wednesday during an inspection of the locomotive refurbishing process at the Nairobi Central Workshop in Nairobi, the Chairman of the Industrial and […]
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A myth is told of how the map guiding engineers constructing the Nairobi-Nanyuki metre gauge railway in 1930 got lost as they made merry in Nanyuki town, thus effectively cutting short the progression of the railway to Northern Kenya. However, the myth has been shattered by lands officials in Laikipia after they produced what they […]
Continue ReadingOver 10,000 small scale traders who were evicted from National government land in Kisumu town can now breathe a sigh of relief after Kenya Railways (KR) surrendered 23 acres of its land to resettle them. The KR Managing Director, Philip Mainga on Wednesday handed over the land tittle deed to Nyanza Regional Commissioner (CC), James […]
Continue ReadingPlans to rid Lake Victoria of the water Hyacinth have moved notch higher following the docking of a 4000 ton dredging vessel expected to decimate and haul the weed out of the lake starting Friday. And none other the African Union High Representative for Infrastructural Development in Africa Raila Amolo Odinga accompanied by county and […]
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