It's the Weight and not size of a container that determines its price.

20ft light can cost as little as 50k of its co-loaded (2×20ft)on a 40ft truck
Same applies if the trucker is doing a return trip..say he dropped a container at mombasa and has no other load to carry back to nbo.
20ft heavy will carry the price of a 40ft because it cannot be co-loaded.


Minimum Transport cost for a heavy 20ft and 40ft= 80k from MBA to NBO. ( sasa uhuru ameharibu hapa☺

We cannot rule out the truckers because rail will deliver to ICD and client has to make othet transport arrangements to door.Approx 15-25k within city limits.
Now the main challenge with rail freight are delays encountered during wagon allocations at the port.
If KPA fail to deliver on their part the train will not be of any help to business people.

The people who will feel the pinch are the bus companies esp those with Kungunis.

The proposed construction of the standard gauge railway line is aimed at making Kenya an investment hub.

The rail that will cost nearly Sh320 billion will also reduce the cost of transport, Kenya Railways Managing Director Nduva Muli has said

The Mombasa-Nairobi section of the line is expected to be complete by 2013 while the Nairobi-Kisumu- Malaba one is projected to end by 2016.

The railway line, which is to be built according to Chinese railway design standards, will carry freight trains at speeds of up to 80 kilometres per hour, and passenger trains at up to 120 kilometres per hour.

It will be completed in five years, with the cost of the track alone estimated at a massive $2.6 billion. Total cost of Nairobi to Mombasa is $3.8 Billion dollars translating to Sh 327 Billion.

Additional income

Kenya Railways expects to raise even more money from selling the assets of the existing railway line.

The assumption in the financing model is that, once the standard gauge railway is completed, Kenya Railways will receive a salvage value of $41 million through disposal of the assets of the existing railway — locomotive wagons, railway tracks and sleepers.

Mkeiy ,if you read my post well you will realise that we are speaking the same thing.

2x20 LIGHT(co-load)=1x40= I TRUCK=80k
1x20 HEAVY(single load)= 1 TRUCK = 80k

Extra weight attracts a fine.

Au namna gani my fren.

I don't get some people... watu wanalalamika na SGR iko hapa already Eish! Bickering about the price and usefulness of SGR will not help anyone! Iko hapa already! Ni kama Thika road... iko hapa...haiendi mahali!! Start getting some utility out of it! Si some people in 2007 were complaining eti in 40 something years of independence hatujawahi ongeza hata inch moja ya reli? Sasa iko hapa mnaanza kulalamika bei? Reli sio plot ruai!!

@Masukuma, chills bana. Ni Madaraka Day.

Have people complained, or, are they highlighting some issue,PRICING? What's wrong with that?

If the king is naked, he ought to be told so.


Here is why. SGR-cargo-pricing

according to Business daily, a 20ft container @50k to ICD, then another 10k - 20k approx trucking to the door. Total=60k70k.Compare that to using road from Msa to your door(not beyond Nai) at 50k.

For a 40ft container weighing 29tons, going by Business daily, 7 Shs per ton per km. This container will cost me;
7shs*29ton*450km=91,350Shs to ICD.
add another 15k-20k to my door to make it 106k - 121k.

On the road, I get the same at 90k,to my door.
As I write this, I have one on the road from Msa, what would persuade me to use SGR?
Ama mambo ya economic sense tutupilie mbali?

KR now says there'll be 2 trains leaving at around 9am. The express one and ya mlengo

No other trips will be there for the time being. No night train.

You can only buy tickets at the station. No pre-booking