How new expressway will further hurt SGR fortunes

A cargo train leaves Mombasa Port for Nairobi at the Southern Bypass on February 12, 2021. PHOTO | WACHIRA MWANGI | NMG

The Standard Gauge Railway is set to face stiffer competition from the road network after the government revived plans to build an expressway, that will run side by side with the railway.

Three firms are now competing for a tender to build the 473-km Nairobi-Mombasa Expressway, which will offer an uninterrupted movement of vehicles between the two cities.

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