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How rising costs at Mombasa Port are driving up South Sudan imports

Mombasa Port. [Photo, Courtesy]

South Sudanese importers are facing a crisis at Kenya’s Mombasa port, where they claim inefficiencies in managing empty shipping containers have driven the cost of imported goods to triple.

Delays in returning containers, coupled with port congestion and high security bonds, are strangling trade for the landlocked nation, inflating retail prices.

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