KENYA's Port of Mombasa, the busiest port in East Africa, will benefit from the opening of APM Terminals' (APMT) new container freight station jointly operated with local Kenyan company, Great Lakes Ports.
The new facility, located four kilometres from the port, covers an area of 7.3 hectares and accommodates 600-metre railway lines holding four trains simultaneously, each allowing for 40 truck movements.
Although the addition of three more truck lanes at its 12 gates has relieved congestion at the port, traffic flows continue to create problems in and out of the harbour precincts.
"Huge traffic jams are experienced every day at the Makupa causeway, the Changamwe roundabout and all the way to Nairobi," said APMT inland services manager Jesper Boll in a report from Lloyd's Loading List.
The port acts as a key gateway to landlocked Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, and the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The new CTF will benefit from APMT's extensive networking Africa including transhipment operations at Egypt's Suez Canal box terminal at Port Said East and Morocco's Tanger Med.
The addition of an inland port on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway will support APMT services and cut down on turnaround time for imported and transit cargo and reduce demurrage costs for importers in Kenya and Uganda, added Mr Boll.
PORTS
18 February 2013 - 16:01
Mombasa's port congestion to be eased by APMT inland container depot
KENYA's Port of Mombasa, the busiest port in East Africa, will benefit from the opening of APM Terminals' (APMT) new container freight station jointly operated with local Kenyan company,
PORTS
18 February 2013 - 16:01
Mombasa's port congestion to be eased by APMT inland container depot
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