Kenya bets on law to bar foreign vessels from local shipping cash

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Principal Secretary for the State department for Labour and Skills Development, Shadrack Mwadime. FILE PHOTO | LUCY WANJIRU | NMG

Kenya plans to start chartering vessels to undertake local transshipments of cargo as it moves to lock out foreign vessels that have been denying the country more than Sh3 billion yearly.

Shipping and Maritime Affairs PS Shadrack Mwadime said the government would invoke the cabotage laws under the Merchant Shipping Act to allow and facilitate the planned sea-borne transhipment plan.

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