Nairobi, Feb. 6 -- Kenya has received fifty new standard gauge railway (SGR) wagons that are aimed at boosting the transport of cargo on the Chinese-built line.

The wagons, procured for the Madaraka Express SGR freight service, were received on Monday by the Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen.

A second batch of 250 wagons is expected to dock at the port of Mombasa later this month having been loaded at the Tianjin port in China towards the end of last month, said Mr Murkomen.

"Railway transport is a key enabler of the aspirations set out in our country's long-term development blueprint, Vision 2030," Mr Murkomen said.

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