The new facility is one of East Africa’s largest and most technologically advanced CFS operations, with direct rail links to both the port and inland commercial and population centres of Nairobi and Kampala. Offices of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) as well as a banking facility for clearing terminal and custom’s charges are all located on-site.
“This new, modern dry port facility will substantially reduce turnaround time for imported and transit cargoes and reduce demurrage costs for importers in Kenya and Uganda” said Jesper Boll, APM Terminals Inland Services Regional Manager
Mombasa, the busiest container terminal in East Africa with 771,000 teu throughput in 2011, saw container volume increase by 25% in the first half of 2012, and handled an estimated 840,000 teu last year.
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