Cargo To Africa

Category: Kenya Ports

  • Kenya has big plans for big cargo business

    To gain more, have to work more

    Extension of the Mombasa port in course of recent years has empowered it to deal with bigger volumes of freight, making it appealing for a huge worldwide delivery line. KPA (Kenya Ports Authority) says that huge change in the aptitude of tasks is another significant reason that we have gotten the attention of bigger vessels.
    Six of the main ten container shipping services Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Company, CMA-CGM, China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) and Evergreen Shipping line are currently calling at the port.

    Two weeks prior, the port got a container vessel MvSpero, worked by Hapag-Lloyd from German delivery service, denoting the association’s beginning deeds to East Africa. Hapag-Lloyd is the world’s 6th biggest container carrier when it comes to vessel limit.

    Mombasa Port Development Program

    KPA Managing Director Catherine Mturi Wairi said that “The important point is, calling of well-known shipping services for the port is a sign of faith which international shipping and the business group has in the Mombasa port. She credited this to a pile of changes accomplished under the Mombasa Port Development Program (MPDP).

    The MPDP initiated in 2005 as a component of the actualization of a 25-year Port Master Plan that concentrated on a limited up gradation of expansion in cargo works. Another segment of the MPDP is consumption of current invention in the port’s systems.

    Usage of this program has kept on increasing abilities in tasks, reducing cargo ship reversal time from 4.9 days a couple of years before to 2.5 days. Stay time of container is decreased from 7.1 days to 3.5 days.

    KPA senior public relation officer Hajj Masemo was expecting much more shipping lines amenity at the port within few years and said that “We are connected with various shipping and cargo lines and there is the expectation that soon they will start calling at the port. Moreover, Hapag Lloyd which called with a small quantity of a vessel of 1,700 TEUs will get a greater ship of up to 3,000 TEUs,” he said.

    The experts are restoring everyone on dock at the port, so they can deal with container vessels while an expansion of the Standard Gauge Railway into the port which is supposed to help empty cargo swiftly and more efficiently in professional manners.

    Rise in Cargo to Industry

    From past many years, Mombasa port has seen an enormous rise in cargo quantum, dealing with 27 million tons in 2017 up from 14.4 million tons in 2006. It is assumed that it could be increased up to 44.03 million tons by 2025 and 56.04 million tons by 2030.

    According to experts that huge rise of that much quantum is surely the point where we require some serious and professional investors who are willing and keen to invest in our docks and help us to upgrade the capacity of our docks and ports.

    KPA is nowadays dealing with phase one of the second container terminal which was authorized in 2016 which has an ability to deal with 500,000 tones. This surely is the biggest project which government has contained at the port with alternate tasks for improvement.

  • East African Countries To Use Electonic Cargo Tracking System

    Kenya and Rwanda to replicate electronic cargo tracking system previously used by Uganda

     

    Kenya and Rwanda confirm that they are looking to replicate the electronic cargo tracking system (ECTS)this year. This system will ultimately reduce the cost of transporting cargo on the northern corridor. The heads of the state summit in Kigali stated that the process of procurement and installation will be finalized soon to address the issues of cash deposits and overstayed cargo in Mombasa.

    What the new system will bring new?

    The new system is expected to lower the cost of transportation of cargo and time. It will also reduce the curb thefts of cargo while delivering from one place to another and diversion of goods destined for its market from the port of Mombasa. The revenue authority commissioner of Uganda for customs

    The Revenue Authority commissioner for Customs Richard Kamajugo, the framework will enhance the productivity of Customs procedures bringing about higher income accumulations.

    Benefits of electronic tracking system

    There will be a pre-entry clearance of goods route before the ship touches base at the port of Mombasa and the containers, which will spare time, said Mr Kamajugo, including that the new framework will likewise give real time data on the area and the status of the payload in travel. Prior to the presentation of the innovation, one could just know the area by calling so as to travel load the driver.

    ECTS trigger an alarm whenever there is a diversion from the actual route, it will also inform on every unusual or long stopover and it will even inform the authorities if someone tries to open the containers illegally. The new system will help in sealing the loopholes that cause these countries loss in revenues through suspected under-declaration of the value of the exports and theft of cargo. The electronic tracking system had helped the traders in Uganda to minimize the costs and time of doing business from one week to just one and a half day.

    Costs of the system

    When the trucks face delay along the transit route, it costs $200 to $250 per day. Sometime the total cost or maybe a partial cost is passed over the owner of the goods. All this process was increasing the overall cost of goods being transported through this transit route. It was not only because of the unusual stoppages in the corridor, but the distance also was a factor.

    The New system will ensure that the countries will get precise information on imports and exports of goods from the port to the destination.

  • Kenya Ready to Blow up A Norwegian Cargo Ship

    The Hoegh Transporter is set to be destroyed after clearance from the Kenyan President

    A Norwegian cargo ship was found containing white powder and weapons when raided by the security forces of Kenya. It is unsure what weapons were found but it was at the Mombasa port that a raid took place by the elite officers leading to the findings of weapons and drugs. The ship is called the Hoegh Transporter and is from Norway.

    In response to this discovery Kenyan security is ready and preparing to blow the whole cargo ship up. The decision to raid the ship was highly influenced by U.S intelligence advice.

    What caused suspicion and how and why they were on board is unclear at the moment, but the Kenyan law demands that any drug carrying transport in Kenya’s waters must be destroyed. Now all that awaits is President Kenyatta’s orders and it will be the end of the ship.

    The weapons were later found to be rifles and rocket propelled grenades of Russian make as well as other firearms. Mombasa’s police chief spoke to a news conference regarding the findings.

    Considering the weapons reached as far as they did, Kenya has doubts as to why it was not disclosed earlier and is entertaining the possibility of a UN agency transporting what was found in the ship.

    Police have also revealed that the crew members will be charged, a total of 20 of them. The charge against them will be illegal arms trafficking.

    Further raids and searches as well as extensive reports suggest that Mumbai was the place where drugs were placed in the ship and intended for Mombasa. It is from the rules and regulations that everything put into the ship must be declared, but the Kenyan government was not made aware of any additions until the raid where they themselves discovered the drugs.

    A spokesman for the U.N revealed that the weapons found were intended for the Indian battalion for a Congo peacekeeping mission. They also revealed that they were placed in the ship in India.

    Their take on all the events was that Kenya was wrong to have raided without the U.N. presence as the weapons were stated in the lading bill and left out of the manifest. The military vehicles were also sent with a declaration of weapons. An anonymous commenter declared it normal for weapons to be placed inside after dismantling due to the possible damage during the voyage.

    At the moment everything is being kept on hold until a thorough investigation has taken place. Hoegh auto liners have confirmed that some of the weapons discovered by Kenyan police were not mentioned in the manifest. Alongside an issue has been raised regarding the initial contract which forbade any weapons being placed inside the cargo. This leaves little room for any justification.