NAIROBI, July 6 (Xinhua) -- The standard gauge railway (SGR) passenger train has moved some 7.78 million passengers between the capital, Nairobi and Mombasa since its inception in June 2017, a national statistics agency said in a report released on Wednesday.
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) said the Chinese-built train carried the highest number of passengers -- two million -- in 2021, with 2018 coming second at 1.67 million.
The train ferried 699,055 passengers in 2017, 1.59 million passengers in 2019, and 1.29 million passengers in 2020, said KNBS.
The Presidential Strategic Communication Unit (PSCU) told journalists in Nairobi that millions of passengers using the SGR is a display of popularity of the train dubbed Madaraka Express.
"The train has reduced travel time for passengers from Nairobi to Mombasa from an average of 10 hours to only five," said the PSCU on Wednesday in a brief on government projects.
