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Port operations at the Kenya Ports Authority's Container Terminal on Saturday, 28th October 2017 in Mombasa County. [Photo by Maarufu Mohamed/Standard]
The Kenya Ports Authority has lowered container handling charges in the latest push by the Government to improve uptake of cargo through the new Standard Gauge Railway service.
The move comes amid a row with freighters who have opposed a directive for them to use the new service as opposed to using road transport to ferry cargo from the port of Mombasa.
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