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SGR cargo train

A cargo train leaves for Nairobi via Mombasa's Southern Bypass on February 12, 2021.

| Wachira Mwangi | Nation Media Group

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SGR killing cargo truck business

By  Brian Ambani

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • The challenge posed by the SGR and operational costs make it harder for logistics firms to survive.
  • According to one of the transporters, fuel, whose price has been on the rise, takes up nearly half of the expenses.

A crestfallen Awal Abdi casts a glance at nearly half of his fleet of long-haul cargo trucks, which now lie idle in a yard.

Mr Abdi has been struggling to get more customers to keep his entire fleet on the road.   

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