Turkey’s Med Marine has delivered a tug to the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) for operation by its marine services arm at the Port of Lamu in southern Kenya. The RAL-desig ..
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The Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) recently took delivery of a new ASD harbour tug from Turkish builder Med Marine. The RINA-classed, Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) designed Mwokozi ..
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Kenya Shipyard and Turkish builder Med Marine have entered into an agreement for the construction of a new tug for operation by the Kenya Ports Authority. The Robert Alla ..
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The Kenya Ports Authority took delivery of a new ASD tug on Monday, January 10. The Robert Allan Ltd-designed Mwokozi 2 was built by Med Marine of Turkey for operations a ..
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Turkish shipyard Med Marine has floated out a new ship handling and coastal towing tug ordered by the Kenya Ports Authority. Once completed, the Robert Allan Ltd-designed ..
Med Marine has been selected to build a new salvage and harbour tug for the Kenya Ports Authority for operations at the Port of Mombasa. The Robert Allan Ltd-designed ..
Kenya’s Chinese-built port in the coastal island of Lamu is expected to be launched in December, the port agency said on Monday.
Daniel Manduku, managing director of Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) told Xinhua in Nairobi that the facility that was constructed by the China Communication Construction Company will receive its first ship from the Maersk Shipping line next month.
“The Lamu port will mainly be a transshipping hub for cargo destined for ports such as Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Maputo,”...
Kenya said the implementation of the Chinese-built standard gauge railway (SGR) which runs from Mombasa to Nairobi has continued to improve transportation of cargo and passengers and will not affect the road freight transport sector.
James Macharia, Cabinet Secretary in Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development said in Nairobi that even as the use of the SGR is at full capacity, it can only move 40 percent of the total traffic passing through the port of Mombasa,...
An inter-ministerial team will be deployed to Mombasa port to improve efficiency, acting Finance CS Ukur Yatani said on Friday, September 6.
Yatani said members of the team will be from the National Treasury, Interior, Transport and Trade ministries.
“This team will be looking at all aspects of trade...
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The Kenya Ports Authority has shipped equipment worth billions of shillings to Kisumu port to ensure fast and efficient transfer of cargo between ships.
Spot checks at the port by Sunday Standard on Aug. 17 revealed new arrivals of the machinery to be installed, as a flurry of activity to refurbish the facility continues.
The equipment includes a container handler, forklift truck, reach stacker, material crane handlers and ship-to-shore container cranes.
Others are port and railyard tractors,...
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