Nairobi launches Comesa online cargo clearance

Cargo containers being offloaded from a vessel at the Port of Mombasa in Kenya on March 6, 2024.

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Kenya has launched an electronic cargo clearance system, which is expected to enable faster clearance of goods.

The Comesa Electronic Certificate of Origin (e-CO), a web-based system, replaces the manual paperwork that was slow, cumbersome, time wasting and prone to corruption at the border points.