KPA officials under siege as port congestion escalates

A truck carrying a container leaves the port of Mombasa through Kipevu Gate yesterday. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

Activities at Mombasa port remained paralysed yesterday due to alleged massive system failure.

However, some sources have said operational inefficiencies, high level corruption and cargo losses at the port and at the Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Embakasi, Nairobi, have been engineered to undermine the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) freight services.