Container traffic through the Mombasa port grew 23.53 percent to hit a record 2,005,076 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in the year to December 2024, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) said, up from 1,623,080 registered the previous year.
Mombasa Port is the main gateway for the region and handles imports of fuel and consumer goods and exports of tea and coffee from landlocked neighbours, such as Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and South Sudan.
