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New direction for Kenyan container traffic

News9 Sep 2012

After decades of allowing the market to determine the movement of containers around the country, the government of Kenya now plans to legisl...

Rapid growth at Mombasa

News14 Aug 2012

Kenya Ports Authority has announced a 24% increase in container traffic during the first half of this year...

PPPs recommended for Mombasa

News26 May 2011

Consultancy CPCS Transcom has advised the government of Kenya to allow public private partnerships (PPPs) to manage more services at the Por...

Opposition to Mombasa concession plan mounts

News1 Mar 2011

Kenyan trades unions are planning to fight against the perceived privatisation of the port of Mombasa. The government has vacillated in its ...

Dredging agreed for Mombasa

News22 Dec 2010

The Kenya Ports Authority has awarded a contract to dredge the approaches to Mombasa harbour to Dutch firm Van Oord...

New attacks on Mombasa-Kampala line

News8 May 2009

The railway linking the Kenyan port of Mombasa with Nairobi and Kampala in Uganda has again been targeted by violent protests...

Nairobi sets deadline for Lamu port…

News1 May 2009

The Kenyan government has announced that it intends to complete the new port at Lamu by 2011. The project is part of a wider scheme to devel...

Qatar to build new port in Kenya

News1 Jan 2009

The government of Qatar has signed a US$3.5B deal to develop a new port on a large area of land in northern Kenya....

Mombasa attracts more interest

News10 Oct 2008

DP World has indicated that it would like to take over the management of Mombasa container terminal....

…24 hour operations introduced

News1 Oct 2008

The Kenyan Ports Authority (KPA) has planned to introduce 24 hour operation at Mombasa for some time, but the Kenyan government has now dema...

Toll moves into Africa

News1 Oct 2008

Australia’s Toll Holdings, through subsidiary Patrick Defence Logistics, has won a contract to manage a railway running from Mombasa to Ka...

…as heads roll in Kenya

News1 Aug 2008

Two key figures in the Kenyan transport sector have stepped down over the past month. The managing director of Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), ...

Mombasa upgrade to be fast tracked…

News1 Aug 2008

The Kenyan government has announced that Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) is to speed up the modernisation of the Port of Mombasa. Nairobi has al...

Problems pile up for Mombasa

News19 Jul 2008

The Kenyan Port of Mombasa is experiencing long delays in processing containers as a result of IT problems. Plans for the port's second cont...

New car terminal in Kenya

News1 Apr 2008

Landlocked Uganda has long had to rely on the Kenyan Port of Mombasa to handle its vehicle imports, which are now estimated at about 40,000 ...

Kenyan transport hit by civil unrest

News1 Feb 2008

Serious instability across much of Kenya since the country’s December elections has severely affected port and rail operations in the coun...

New direction for Kenyan container traffic

Rapid growth at Mombasa

PPPs recommended for Mombasa

Opposition to Mombasa concession plan mounts

Dredging agreed for Mombasa

New attacks on Mombasa-Kampala line

Nairobi sets deadline for Lamu port…

Qatar to build new port in Kenya

Mombasa attracts more interest

…24 hour operations introduced

Toll moves into Africa

…as heads roll in Kenya

Mombasa upgrade to be fast tracked…

Problems pile up for Mombasa

New car terminal in Kenya

Kenyan transport hit by civil unrest

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Guidelines on safe transport of charcoal in containers published

Port of Oakland, NWSA join FLOW

Xeneta: Shippers are not out of the woods

Port of Gothenburg gets direct Ro-Ro connection to Asia

Port of Vancouver’s container volumes recover

New direction for Kenyan container traffic

Rapid growth at Mombasa

PPPs recommended for Mombasa

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Guidelines on safe transport of charcoal in containers published

Port of Oakland, NWSA join FLOW

Xeneta: Shippers are not out of the woods

Port of Gothenburg gets direct Ro-Ro connection to Asia

Port of Vancouver’s container volumes recover

ILA says it will move forward with strike on Tuesday

Map of major ports affected by strike on US East and Gulf coasts

Will port strike severely disrupt US economy?

ILA shuts down ports on Atlantic and Gulf coasts

Sand: Ships en route to East Coast will have to wait at anchor until strike ends