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The recent visit to the Port of Mombasa by British High Commissioner H.E. Matt Baugh OBE and Kenya’s High Commissioner to the UK, Ambassador Maurice Makoloo, was more than a…
On the evening of September 30, 2026, a blue 40-foot high-cube container bearing the marks ESDU 9239868 rolled out of the Port of Mombasa. It was loaded onto a truck,…
On 13 October 2026, British High Commissioner to Kenya, His Excellency Matt Baugh OBE, stepped into Tononoka Social Hall in Mombasa for the British High Commission’s first Open House outside…
Kenya’s gateway to the world is leaking value. The Port of Mombasa and its inland trade corridors remain vital arteries for the East African economy, yet they continue to haemorrhage…
On the evening of September 30, 2026, a blue 40-foot high-cube container bearing the marks ESDU 9239868 rolled out of the Port of Mombasa. It was loaded onto a truck,…
The world’s first community-led blue carbon project sits in Gazi Bay, a quiet inlet on Kenya’s south coast. Since 2012, Mikoko Pamoja—“Mangroves Together” in Swahili—has protected 117 hectares of mangrove…
The recent announcement that the Voi–Taveta Railway Rehabilitation Project has reached 40% completion is more than a construction update. It is a reminder of what was lost—and what could yet…
A simple ranking of container shipping capacity, published in early October 2026 and drawn from Alphaliner’s Top 100, reveals something more profound than league-table trivia: the architecture of global trade…
When a global shipping giant of Hapag-Lloyd’s scale makes a strategic bet on a region, the ripples are felt far beyond the docks. The German liner’s recent pledge to deepen…
In early August 2026, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) and Hapag-Lloyd held a high-level engagement that, on the surface, looked like another polite industry handshake. Beneath the diplomatic language, however,…