The East African
Tuesday February 16 2021
Cargo containers waiting to be picked by owners at the Inland Container Depot in Nairobi. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Summary
Transporters from any country in East Africa using the port are now free to choose mode of transporting cargo.
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Importers using the port of Mombasa are now free to use road transport to haul cargo to their respective destinations, after a five-judge bench quashed a government directive requiring all cargo imported through the port be transported to Nairobi and the hinterland exclusively by the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).
Kenya Transporters Association’s Mercy Ireri said all transporters from any country in East Africa using the port are now free to choose mode of transporting cargo.