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Hope for Lamu Port as cargo begins to trickle in

Cargo being offloaded from the African Swan ship at Lamu Port. [Joackim Bwana, Standard]

It has taken two years since Lamu Port was launched for the first cargo that has landed on its docks to be transported through the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) corridor.

The port was launched by former President Uhuru Kenyatta on May 20 2021. Lamu Port was meant to be the mouthpiece by which cargo would be fed into the Lapsset corridor.

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