Mombasa bid

to expand berthing

The Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has invited bids for additional berthing and an adjacent stacking yard at Mombasa port. Ships calling on the strategically important port have experienced delays in getting container berths and there are problems berthing larger container ships. The loss of transit business is of advantage to competing ports such as Dar es Salaam and South Africa.

Mombasa has had growth in the volume of container traffic, which is larger than was anticipated. Despite the dire situation facing shipping at times in the recession, the port of Mombasa recorded good traffic performance last year. The port handled a total of 19.06 million tonnes of cargo up from 16.415 million tonnes 2008, a growth of 16.1 per cent.

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Gichiri Ndua
Managing Director Mombasa Port

"Bidders will be required to provide bid bond of $500,000. There shall be an organised site visit on 13 September 2010 starting from 0930 hrs. The extension of container berths will enable the port to handle three container vessels simultaneously. Commercial ports efficiency world over are measured on the time it takes for imports and exports to leave the port."