Uganda backs out of compulsory use of container port in Naivasha
First transshipment cargo load at Naivasha Inland Container Depot. Kenya wants all goods destined to neighbouring countries picked up in Naivasha. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Uganda has backed out of a deal that requires all goods imported through Kenya with final destinations being neighbouring land-locked countries be transported on the standard gauge railway.
The directive to ferry goods directly from Mombasa to the Naivasha Inland Container Depot (ICD), supposed to take effect on June 1, was agreed at a virtual meeting attended by presidents of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan.
