KENYA Ports Authority recorded a nine per cent increase in the volume of cargo handled in the first quarter of this year According to managing director Gichiri Ndua, the authority handled 5.56 million tonnes in the first three months of this year compared to 5.1 million tonnes during the same period last year. The volume is estimated to have further increased in the last three months between March and June, as the authority targets to increase container cargo at the port to 1.6 million twenty tonne equivalent units (TEU's), from the current 900,000 TEU’s in the next five years. The average...
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