Surging imports revive CFS businesses.

Focus Container Freight Station (CFS) Chairman Faisal Abass (left) interacts with members of the Changamwe network for persons with special needs during the presentation of their memorandum on the proposed construction of a 15,000 metric tons liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) terminal at the project site in Mombasa County. [File, Standard]

In the past eight months, three Container Freight Stations (CFSs) have been commissioned in Mombasa, adding 150,000 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) of capacity to the logistics chain.

This marks a significant turnaround of the privately owned CFS business that took a hit after the launch of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) cargo trains and the expansion of Mombasa port.