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Kenya's SGR set to open

News26 May 2017

The new standard gauge railway (SGR) from Mombasa to Nairobi was due to open on 1st June. Meanwhile, the proposed Rift Valley Railways sale ...

News18 Apr 2017

Uganda has refused to accept Kenya's termination of Rift Valley Railways' concession to operate the established rail link between Mombasa, N...

News11 Feb 2017

Qalaa Holdings has announced that it will sell its majority stake in Rift Valley Railways, the narrow gauge railway that runs from the Port ...

News23 Jul 2016

Earthworks and engineering work on the new standard gauge line between Mombasa and Nairobi are 75% complete...

News1 Oct 2015

An addition has been announced to the new Mombasa-Kampala railway – a 120 km branch line to Naivasha in the Rift Valley. China Road and Br...

News1 May 2014

The Chinese government has agreed to finance the construction of a new standard gauge rail link from the Kenyan port of Mombasa westwards to...

News9 Sep 2012

After decades of allowing the market to determine the movement of containers around the country, the government of Kenya now plans to legisl...

News8 Sep 2011

Rift Valley Railways (RVR) has announced that it has secured US$164M in funding to help speed up the pace of rail rehabilitation on the Momb...

News27 Apr 2011

The revamped Rift Valley Railways (RVR) has increased its tariffs on the main Mombasa-Uganda rail line...

News1 Sep 2010

A deal to restructure troubled Rift Valley Railways (RVR), which operates freight and most passenger rail services in Kenya and Uganda, has ...

News17 Apr 2010

Egyptian firm Citadel Capital has now completed its purchase of Sheltam Rail’s 39% stake in Rift Valley Railways (RVR), the operator of mo...

News19 Mar 2010

Egyptian firm Citadel Capital has purchased a 49% stake in South African firm Sheltam Railways that gives it 17.5% equity in troubled Rift V...

News8 May 2009

The railway linking the Kenyan port of Mombasa with Nairobi and Kampala in Uganda has again been targeted by violent protests...

News1 Oct 2008

Australia’s Toll Holdings, through subsidiary Patrick Defence Logistics, has won a contract to manage a railway running from Mombasa to Ka...

News1 Aug 2008

Two key figures in the Kenyan transport sector have stepped down over the past month. The managing director of Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), ...