Lease out port to get higher returns, improve operations

Containers at the Mombasa Port. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) deserves commendation for taking steps to boost cargo handling at the Mombasa Port ahead of the completion of the expansion of the Suez Canal by the Egyptian government.

According to KPA’s Managing Director Gichiri Ndua, the plans are to construct and equip four berths which will provide an estimated 600,000 Twenty Equivalents Units (TEUS), a measure of container capacity.