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When Kenya Ports Authority Managing Director Capt. William Ruto hosted Mr. Imafuku Takao, Director-General of the International Cooperation Bureau in Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the Port of Mombasa,…
Tomorrow, September 30, 2026, Kenya plans to break ground on what could become one of the most consequential industrial projects in East African history: a 700,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery and petrochemical…
On September 28, 2026, Environment and Land Court Judge Jane Onyango in Malindi issued an order maintaining “the status quo prevailing” on L.R. No. 13061 in the Hindi/Manda Magogoni area…
TUM IMSS’s Seafarers Training Portal is a credibility system, not just a convenience app Mombasa has always sold itself as Kenya’s maritime city. The Technical University of Mombasa’s Institute of…
The global shipping market has entered territory that even veteran operators struggle to comprehend. Clarksons’ ClarkSea Index, the industry’s broadest earnings benchmark, has posted a third consecutive all-time high at…
The African Maritime Council’s recent snapshot is useful — and incomplete. Mombasa handled 45.45 million tonnes in 2025. Dar es Salaam moved 27.7 million tonnes in FY2024/25. Lamu processed about…
Mombasa Port exported 517,131 tonnes in July 2026 — the highest monthly export figure on record and a 21.3 percent increase over the 426,164 tonnes shipped in July 2025. Total…
When a major global carrier announces it expects to move more than one million TEU across Africa in a single year, and pairs that ambition with a deeper terminal partnership…
The question is no longer whether the site was right. It is whether Kenya will finish the corridor that makes the port matter—and whether KPA will sell it from Addis…
Kenya once had a refinery. It was small, aging, state-dominated, and ultimately uncompetitive. The Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL) facility in Mombasa, built in 1963 with a nameplate capacity of…