Uganda-bound cargo retains lead position at port

A heavy machinery loads one of the fourteen containers loaded with primary schools laptops at the Siginon yard in Miritini soon after they arrived at the port of Mombasa on board a ship, September 23, 2016. The containers were transported by road to Nairobi where they will be distributed to public primary schools country-wide. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]

The Port of Mombasa handled 21,458 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) at its two container terminals in the week ending October 5.

In a weekly update on port operations, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) said eight container ships called in to discharge 10,551 TEUs and load another 10,907 TEUs.