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Mombasa port cargo volume up as Dar es Salaam, Djibouti hit by congestion

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MD Kenya Ports Authority, Capt. William Ruto [left] with PS, State department for Petroleum, Mohamed Liban. [Omondi Onyango,Standard]

The volume of the transit cargo handled through the port of Mombasa has grown significantly on the back of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) renewed push to improve efficiency.

Although Uganda, the biggest transit market for Mombasa port, recorded the lowest growth at 8.2 per cent in the first half of 2024, KPA relied on the other Northern Corridor countries, who are increasingly finding Kenya's facility more attractive, to record an unprecedented growth of 18.2 per cent in the last six months compared to the same period, last year, according to the statistics seen by The Standard.

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