Dredging of Mombasa Port• We completed dredging the channel to -15 metres in early April this year thereby allowing bigger vessels to come to the port. The project which was launched in July 2011 by Hon. guest of honor, involved dredging and widening of Navigation and Main Channels and turning basin. Equally, the new container terminal has been dredged to -15m while the existing one was dredged to -12.5 metres.
• Following this accomplishment, we have so far received five maiden calls to Mombasa notably: MV. ROBERTA, MV. JADE, MV. JOLLY DIAMANTE, MV. Jolly PERLA and MSC TIA, which by any standard has been the highest number of “first-calls” ever handled within such a short period. Of these vessels, MSC TIA is so far the longest container vessel measuring 261 meters with a draft of 12.3 meters to ever call into Mombasa
Construction of Berth No. 19
The project was also launched in July last year. It involves the development of a new berth with a quay length of 240 metres thereby giving a total quay length of 840 metres to the current container terminal. The construction is to be completed in February 2013. The associated stacking yard is approximately 15 acres and is expected to have throughput capacity of 200,000 TEUs annually.
Second Container Terminal
The project involves construction of a new container terminal west of Kipevu Oil Terminal on 100 hectares of reclaimed land and with a capacity to handle 1.2 million TEU annually when completed. The new container terminal will have three berths that measure 230, 320 and 350 metres. The two phased construction started on 1 March 2012 and completion of phase 1 is expected in March 2016.
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