Kenya Railways In Joint Multisectoral Efforts To Boost Railway Use

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Kenya Railways has embarked on an initiative to support the agriculture sector in Laikipia to generate enough produce to sustain rail cargo transportation on the newly rehabilitated Nairobi-Nanyuki Railway.
The national railway corporation on Thursday held a consultative meeting with national agricultural based agencies in Nanyuki to deliberate on ways to generate viable agricultural volumes required to sustain train operations from Laikipia.
The meeting brought together representatives from the National Cereals and Produce Board, State Department of Crops, State Department of Livestock, Kenya Planters Cooperative Union and the Kenya National Trading Corporation.
The participants deliberated on ways to create business by transportation of goods through the revived railway, where traders are set to reap from the reduced cost of transportation.
The newly rehabilitated railway line is on the tail end of the restoration operations, in just over two months.
The line will afford cheaper and safer transport alternatives for bulk cargo to the players in the agricultural sector, trade and mining.
The 11-million-litre Vivo Fuel depot is set to be supplied by the railway line, with the expected reduction of fuel price set to ease the cost of doing business. Works are currently ongoing to extend the railway line 200 metres to deliver fuel straight into the terminal.
The railway line cuts through the Central Region Economic Bloc, promoting trade in the region that currently accounts 26 per cent of the countrys GDP.
The extension of the railway line to Isiolo is set to link Cereb to new markets that are expected to be served by the Lapsset Corridor .

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