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SGR allocated Sh15.5bn ‘subsidy’ for operations
New trains and passenger coaches at Miritini station in Mombasa. The SGR will cut the journey between Nairobi and Mombasa to four. PHOTO | FILE
The Treasury has allocated Sh15.5 billion to support the commercial operations on the Nairobi-Mombasa standard gauge railway (SGR) line, signalling that taxpayers will have to subsidise the new passenger and cargo business.
The allocation comes in a year when commercial operations on the new rail is set to start with Chinese firm— China Communications Construction Company picked to run the business.
