Charges up in East Africa

Maersk launching a new service to support the Tanzania cashew trade, while keeping busy with naming new methanol-powered ships and opening fulfilment facilities.

Tanzania has launched operations on its first Standard Gauge Railway section, connecting Dar es Salaam and Dodoma, offering faster freight and passenger services.

AIPH has signed a 30-year deal with the Tanzania Ports Authority to manage Dar es Salaam’s Container Terminal 2, which handled 820,000 TEU in 2023.

Container throughput at Mombasa increased by almost 12% in 2023, with significant improvements in vessel and truck turnaround times, and a rise in total cargo handled.

The government of Uganda has cancelled its 2015 contract with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to build the next section of the standard gauge railway (SGR) from Malaba on the Kenyan border to the Ugandan capital Kampala

The Kenyan government has released some details of the US$3B loans it took out with China Export Import Bank (China Exim Bank) to finance the construction of two phases of the Standard Gauge Railway