Blue Train revenues inch forward to P15m

The BR Express is gathering financial momentum
The BR Express is gathering financial momentum

The BR Express raised its revenues to P15 million last year, transporting 134,702 people in its first full year of operation, BusinessWeek has learnt.

The passenger rail service was reintroduced in April 2016 and for the year up to December 2016, it transported 109,272 people earning P10 million.

Figures released by Statistics Botswana last week suggest that the BR Express is still being subsidised by Botswana Rail’s goods haulage business, which raked in P289 million in 2017.

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