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A security officer keeps guard next to Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line locomotive engines at the KPA s SGR marshaling yard at the port of Mombasa. [File, Standard]
Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) is racing against time to have orders barring it from solely transporting cargo using the Standard Gauge Railway suspended.
In a letter to the Court of Appeal, KPA is seeking to have its appeal against the order suspending movement of cargo through SGR from May 7 expedited before the date that was set by a three-judge bench of the High Court commences.
The High Court had on March 15, 2019 issued orders stopping KPA from solely transporting all containers from the port through the SGR.
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The High Court in Mombasa has declined to lift its orders to stop the Standard Gauge Railways (SGR) from enjoying the monopoly of transporting all containers from the port of Mombasa.
Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) had made an application to have the orders suspending SGR monopoly in haulage to Nairobi and Naivasha stayed pending an appeal.
In March 15, 2019, and August 3, 2019, KPA and Kenya Railway Corporation (KR) issued the directive that all the containers from the port should be carried on the SGR.
Truck owners umbrella body, the Kenya Transporters Union (KTU), and three Mombasa residents filed a petition to quash the arrangement.