Last Updated 14 years ago by Kenya Engineer
The Sh28 billion second container terminal at the Mombasa port is set to begin by end of November, according to Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) managing director Gichiri Ndua.
The project which has been on the drawing board will see to the increase the port’s handling capacity and enhance our container operations. The will be the biggest single project to be undertaken by KPA since 1980 when the existing terminal was built. It is part of an elaborate program to expand and modernize the Mombasa port.
The project will involve dredging of the main channel, construction of three berths with a straight-line quay of 900 meters, reclamation of 100 hectares of land, and creation of space for container stacking and associated facilities.
To ease movement of cargo from the port, a railway line and access roads will be constructed to link the new terminal and the existing port network on one end and the proposed Dongo-Kundu by-pass and Mombasa – Nairobi Highway on the other end.
The new terminal project is funded by a loan from the Japanese government through the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) within the Special Terms for Economic Partnership (STEP) at an interest rate of 0.2 per cent and a repayment period of 40 years including 10 years grace period.
Japan will provide Sh26 billion while the Kenyan government through KPA will invest the compulsory funding of Sh5 billion plus Sh612 million for compensating those displaced by the project.
The Mombasa port currently handles more than twice its design throughput of 250,000 20-foot equivalent container units (TEU).This will however change in two years’ time when the new terminal capable of handling 1.2 million TEU is expected to be completed.
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