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Multinationals angle for a piece of the pie at port amid objections

Activities inside the Port of Mombasa in Mombasa County on June 22, 2023. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Major multinational port operators are yet again angling for a chance to manage key services at the ports of Mombasa and Lamu after they lost out in a botched tendering process in 2015.

But the renewed plan to concession services at the two ports has, predictably, been engulfed in a storm despite President William Ruto's attempt to explain its economic implications.

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