Mombasa eyes transhipment business after port upgrade

Earth movers clear a section of the second container terminal that is under construction within the port of Mombasa. FILE PHOTO | NMG

With the expensive dredging behind it and the era of fast train set to begin, Mombasa may as well begin to think of its future as one of Africa’s transhipment hubs.

At a transhipment point, large ships from industrialised nations frequently dock to create a micro economy as they offload their cargo onto smaller vessels which eventually complete the journey to other ports in the region.

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