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Strong 2023 for Port of Mombasa

News2 Apr 2024

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

Progress at Lamu port

News1 Mar 2021

China Communications Construction Company has completed the first three berths at the new port of Lamu in Kenya, and the focus has turned to...

Kenya Ports seeks new equipment

News1 Dec 2020

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has issued tenders for four laden handling reach stackers and four empty container handling reach stackers....

Kenya encouraged to renegotiate SGR cost structure with China

News1 Sep 2020

Kenya’s Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing has released its report on its inquiry into the use of Kenya’s Sta...

Mombasa to break box record

News8 Jan 2020

The port of Mombasa in Kenya handled more than 1.4M TEU in 2019, a record performance and an increase of more than 7% on 2018’s throughput...

Transnet in running to operate Lamu Port

News28 Mar 2019

South Africa’s Transnet SOC is in discussions with Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) to operate the first phase of the new port of Lamu....

Kenya’s Lamu port is delayed

News1 Oct 2018

The new port of Lamu, which is being developed in northern Kenya and is at the heart of the country’s Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Trans...

Kamchatka investment plans

News1 Oct 2018

San Zhong Corporation (SZC), a Sino-Japanese joint venture set up last year in Russia’s Pacific coast port of PetropavlovskKamchatsky, is ...

New life for Kenyan shipping line

News1 Sep 2018

The Government of Kenya has announced that it is to revive Kenya National Shipping Line with the support of Mediterranean Shipping Company (...

Kenya ICD rule change

News1 Feb 2018

The Kenyan Government has taken its support for the new Mombasa-Nairobi railway to another level, and announced that all cargo passing throu...

Infrastructure boom for East African cargo flows

News1 Nov 2017

The region’s transport infrastructure is benefitting from the biggest wave of investment since the early years of the colonial period....

Expedited delivery in Mombasa

News1 Aug 2017

In July, Sovereign Logistics in Kenya, a member of the global Project Cargo Network, was contracted to customs clear and deliver an out-of-g...

Concession extension for Dar

News23 Jul 2017

After years of criticism of its operations, Tanzania International Container Terminal Services’ (TICTS) concession to operate Dar es Salaa...

K&N expands air cold chain presence

News18 Jul 2017

K&N is acquiring both US-based CFI Commodity Forwarders, Inc and one of Kenya’s biggest perishables specialists Trillvane Ltd, to further ...

Kenya's SGR set to open

News26 May 2017

The new standard gauge railway (SGR) from Mombasa to Nairobi was due to open on 1st June. Meanwhile, the proposed Rift Valley Railways sale ...

Rift between Mombasa and Kampala

News18 Apr 2017

Uganda has refused to accept Kenya's termination of Rift Valley Railways' concession to operate the established rail link between Mombasa, N...