The Kenyan port of Mombasa has again been hit by serious delays. The port has the capacity to hold about 6000 containers but is now struggling to cope with over 7000 and containers are reported to be piling up on the dockside.
Rapidly rising demand is at the heart of the problem but the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has blamed the situation on a lack of freight capacity on the Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) line from the port to Nairobi and on to Kampala in Uganda....
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