Coast angles for jobs and business in new Lamu port

Comarco Tag boat towing barge carrying two Rubber Tyred Gantley cranes under Kenya Revenue Authority mobile scanner spotted at the Likoni Ferry Channel on Monday, 17 May 2021, while leaving the port of Mombasa to the port of Lamu. The towing tag will be cruising at a speed of 5 to 6 knots and is expected to arrive on Tuesday early afternoon. President Uhuru Kenyatta will commission the new Lamu Port on 20th May 2021. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Truck owners are among cargo interveners expected to reap big from the new Lamu Port where commercial operations are expected to start by June this year.

With the absence of a pipeline or a railway line to link Lamu to the mainland, truck owners will enjoy a monopoly of moving cargo to and from the new biggest habour in the country.