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Union in court over port terminal privatisation

Dock Workers Union Secretary General Simon Sang address the press at their Makuli Fagia headquarters in Mombasa. [File, Standard]

A dock workers' union and two other organisations have filed a petition to stop the transfer of Mombasa Port's second container terminal to the Kenya National Shipping Line (KNSL).

The Government wants KNSL, which is partly owned by the Swiss registered Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), to jointly run the Sh30 billion terminal.  

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