Global supply woes hit Kenyan consumer with costly imports

A Container Terminal within the Port of Mombasa. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NMG

Kenyan households and businesses are feeling the pinch of global supply constraints and weakening shilling that has increased the cost of importing essential goods, further squeezing earnings.

Official data shows that landed cost of basic food items like wheat, cooking gas, as well as key materials used in farming and construction, have shot up by as much as 67 percent in the past year.

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