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Kenya postpones full control of SGR operations again to December 2025
A standard gauge railway steward attends to a customer at the SGR Nairobi Terminus Syokimau on August 14, 2024. Kenya Railways has so far assumed 98 percent of the SGR operations with the rest expected to be concluded by December this year.
Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) now expects to assume full control of the operations of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line from the Chinese firm Africa Star Railway Operation Company (Afristar) by December 2025, deferring an earlier target of June 2025.
KRC Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Philip Mainga said on Tuesday that the State agency has so far assumed 98 percent of the SGR operations with the rest expected to be concluded by December this year—marking a second postponement of the full takeover date. The State Corporation had set May 2022 as the initial timeline for the completion of the takeover process.
