Ugandan traders turn to Dar port as Kenya polls close in
Tanzania signed $154 million port expansion contract with a Chinese firm as part of plans to transform it into the region’s transport and trade hub. PHOTO FILE | NMG
With about six weeks left for Kenyans to go to the polls, the private sector in neighbouring states are now beginning to look at the Dar es Salaam port as an alternative route to import and export goods.
Kenya’s main port of Mombasa, which according latest reports, registered 11 per cent cargo growth in the first quarter of 2017, serves Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and DR Congo.
