Mombasa positions as green port, as LNG shipping comes closer home
Mombasa Port recently received the maiden call of the pure car carrier MV Global Fuji. The vessel which was carrying 579 motor vehicles is powered primarily by liquefied natural gas…
Kenyan ports: Case for unlocking smaller coastal ports for national development
Does concentration on the Port of Mombasa cause Kenya to ignore potential of its smaller coastal ports? The answer to this question is regrettably in the affirmative, and evidence is…
Modernizing Kenya’s Ports through PPP is worth adopting
I have spent my career studying port operations across the globe, from Rotterdam to Singapore, and I have always held a particular interest in the development of East Africa’s maritime…
How Port Performance Measurement has evolved and become holistic
For decades, a “good port” was simply a fast port. Performance was measured by how quickly cranes moved boxes and how many vessels cleared the berth. But as UNCTAD’s annual…
MSC’s Nigerian Concession: A Landmark Deal with Promise and Peril
The announcement of a 45-year terminal concession agreement between Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Nigerian authorities represents one of the most significant developments in West African port governance in recent…
Beyond impressive logistics for fuel tankers, Kenya needs to graduate from oil dependency
The MT Lunaria, a Liberia-flagged Aframax tanker of the LR2 class built in 2021, arrived at the Port of Mombasa around March 20 or 21 of this year. It took…
Capt Ruto to get new term at KPA as Govt roots to sustain growth
Many actors in the maritime sector and high levels of government anticipate and support an extension of Captain William Ruto’s term as Managing Director of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA),…