Hard times for SGR as port operations return to Coast

Naivasha Inland Container Depot

A truck is loaded at the Naivasha Inland Container Depot in January. FILE PHOTO | NMG


President William Ruto has returned all port operations transferred to Nairobi and Naivasha Inland Container Depots (ICDS) to Mombasa, reversing one of the most controversial policies of the Jubilee administration.

To ensure that the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has minimum guaranteed business to repay the Sh450 billion debt taken to build it, the Uhuru Kenyatta administration forced traders to use the modern railway line, a policy that saw the government transfer clearance to enforce compliance.

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