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Shipping firms push KPA to hire more dock hands

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Mv Pate tugboat docking at the Port of Mombasa. [Robert Menza, Standard]

Shipping lines have raised concern over shortage of workers and pilots which they say has negatively affected cargo operations at Mombasa Port.

Kenya Ships Agents Association (KSAA), the lobby that represents shipping lines, has written to Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) claiming that there has been a shortage of workers even after the authority employed 200 dockworkers recently.

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