Tea traders contemplate shifting to Naivasha as a new holding and packaging zone for consignments of the commodity, citing the high cost of doing business and multiple non-tariff barriers in Mombasa County, as well as the transport to the coastal city, which currently hosts these key pre-export operations, including the weekly auction.
The traders now mull investing in Naivasha as a new tea holding and packaging zone before ferrying consignments of the beverage by railway to the Mombasa port to bypass cess fees charged by different counties along the Northern Corridor.
