China Firm Surrenders More SGR Functions to Kenya
A Chinese firm that has been running the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has surrendered more functions to Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) ahead of the full handover May 2022.
nitially, Kenya Railways was only tasked with handling ticketing, security, and fuelling functions that were handed to it in March 2021. This was done in accordance with the contract entered between the two parties.
However, the Chinese firm, Africa Star Railway Operation Company (AfriStar), which has been at the centre of controversies over ownership, has surrendered the loading and offloading of the SGR passenger and cargo trains to Kenya Railways as part of a deal to fully offload the running of the multi-billion Chinese-funded project to Kenya.“The corporation (Kenya Railway) has now assumed the loading ...