Gateway to East and Central Africa

The Port of Mombasa is one of the largest and busiest port in the East and Central African region, providing direct connectivity to over 80 Ports worldwide. It is linked to a vast hinterland comprising Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Northern Tanzania, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia connected through a multi-modal transport system.

The port has 22 berths divided between conventional cargo and container terminals. It also operates a modern cruise terminal for handling cruise vessels.

Mombasa is currently served by two container terminals with an annual total capacity of 2.3 million TEUs. Additional infrastructure including the construction of berth 23/19B will further increase the capacity of the port to 3.1 million TEUs.

The port operates specialized and Multipurpose Terminals in the handling of various cargo. The Port has dedicated berth facilities for handling bulk grains, soda ash, clinker, titanium, and petroleum products. This includes the Kipevu Oil Terminal, Shimanzi Oil Terminal, Mbaraki wharf.

The multi-purpose Berths one and two serve cruise vessels, steel, container and RORO ships while berths 5,11 and 12 serve Conventional and Container ships with own gear.

Bulk Grain Handling at the Port of Mombasa is done either through; Bulkstream via conveyor belt from the Port to silos located outside the Port or Conventional bagging via grabs onto bagging plants alongside ship and onto trucks.

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Specialized Terminals

The Port of Mombasa operates specialized berths for express handling of specified cargo within the port. The Port has dedicated Berth 3, 9, Mbaraki Wharf, Base Titanium, Shimanzi Oil Terminal and Africa Gas and Oil Limited as specialized terminals for handling of Bulk Grains, Bulk Soda Ash, Bulk Clinker & Coal, Titanium, Bulk Liquid & Gas Cargo respectively.

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Kipevu Oil Terminal

The new Kipevu Oil Terminal is an off-shore oil facility with an island terminal. The terminal facility has four berths with a total length of 770m and one work boat wharf at Westmont area for landing facilities. KOT facility handles six different hydrocarbon import and export products. It is also fitted with a Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) facility, crude oil and heavy fuel oil. KOT has provisions for handling three types of white oil products (DPK – aviation fuel, AGO – diesel and PMS – petrol). There are risers each dedicated to the separate oil products as well as six onshore pipelines that connect the terminal to the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited and Kenya Pipeline Company storage tanks. Other support facilities of the KOT project include electrical power distribution system which is drawn from a substation on-shore. It also has an elaborate water supply and drainage system, firefighting and detection facilities, telecommunications SCADA and control monitoring systems, and navigation aids. The Terminal can accommodate three ships concurrently with a capacity of 170,000 DWT tons. A fourth berth has already been constructed provisionally, which will be fitted with facilities in future commensurate with demand, to be able to handle four ships at a go.

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Cruise Terminal

We operate a modern state of the art passenger cruise terminal at the Port of Mombasa. Kenya is the ‘Home of the Safari’ and this facility caters to the cruise passengers from across the world that visit our magnificent country for the white sandy beaches and the safari adventures. The eco- friendly facility which is fully solar powered has modern amenities including passenger lobby, duty free shops, restaurants and conference facilities

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Multipurpose Terminal

At the Conventional cargo, the port operates multipurpose berths that handle varied cargo. Berths 1 and 2 serve steel, container and RORO ships while berths 5,11 and 12 serve Conventional and Container ships with own gear.

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