Cargo capacity at Mombasa port now up 50pc with new berths

Trucks leave the Port of Mombasa’s container terminals. The port handles an average of one million containers a year, and targets to increase this to 1.32 million with the new terminal. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: Japan has confirmed it has completed the first phase of the Mombasa Port Development Project (MPDP).

The Sh22 billion project was started back in March 2012, with the aim of decongesting the Mombasa Port by creating three more berths (berth 20, 21 and another small berth). It was scheduled to be completed by today, February 29.