Tea traders risk losing millions of shillings in a logistics crisis arising from the shipping lines’ rejection of their consignments in the wake of a persistent slowdown in the loading of vessels at the Mombasa port over the past two weeks.
The stalemate, which has so far affected 151 export containers carrying tea valued at $9.4 million (Sh940 million), is the latest in a chain of operational inefficiencies that are affecting business at the port.
