CRRC announces that it will start to ship additional passenger trains for Kenya’s Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).
The 20 additional passenger trains purchased for Kenya’s Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) were shipped at Shanghai Port last week.
Upon arrival in Kenya, they will be put into operation on the SGR to considerably improve the current passenger transportation capacity and safeguard the interconnection between Kenya and other East African countries.
The contract for purchasing additional passenger trains for Kenya’s Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), which was signed in September 2023, involves first-class and second-class cars, dining cars, power generation cars, and business-class cars that are designed specifically for the SGR.
The trains are expected to enhance the passenger experience and operational quality of the line.
Kenya’s Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a signature project under China’s Belt and Road initiative, and also a representative project of China’s strategy for our railway industry chain to “go global”.
Deeply engaged in this project, CRRC has delivered 41 passenger trains since 2017, and opened the very first overseas 4S shop providing 24/7 passenger train operation and maintenance services, gaining a good reputation for the brand in the local place.
Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway, a project known as the Standard Gauge Railway, was touted at its launch as a major economic driver that will benefit the region. A railway would run east-west across the country from the Indian Ocean (Mombasa) to the western border with Uganda. Six years after its inauguration, the railway has become a financial burden for the country and a key cause of its deteriorating relationship with China. The line has become stuck a little further from the country’s capital Nairobi to the town of Naivasha, some 300 kilometres from the western border.
The work was started by the China Road and Bridge Corporation under former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta under a no-bid contract and a USD 3.6bn loan from China’s Exim Bank.
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