Poor design limiting Mombasa, Dar ports capacity, study says
Containers are offloaded at the Mombasa port. The facility’s installed capacity is for 500,000 TEUs but it handles more than one million. PHOTO | LABAN WALLOGA | NATION
The poor design of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam ports is limiting their capacity to handle of cargo capacity, resulting in delays and inefficiencies.
An analysis of port development in sub-Saharan Africa, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ titled, ‘Strengthening Africa’s gateways to trade’, shows that Dar es Salaam and Mombasa port volumes exceed their actual throughput capacities.
