First clean energy ship docks at Mombasa port

MV Proteus Harvonne the modern KOT II Terminal. [ Kenya Ports Authority]

MV Proteus Harvonne sailed to the port of Mombasa on the maiden call from the port of Tanjung Langsat in Malaysia.

The new modern KOT has four berths and is currently able to discharge three vessels of 170,000 deadweight tonnage - a measure of how much weight a ship can carry at ago.

With the Sh40 billion new KOT II terminal complete and operational, the country is now able to double its capacity of handling transit petroleum products from the current 35,000 tonnes.

The new terminal is an off-shore facility at the Mombasa port, opposite the existing KOT.

It paves way for the replacement of the old KOT situated on the mainland Port Reitz, which was built in 1963 to serve the then East Africa Oil Refinery, which later became the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd.