Mackenzie Maritime replaces Gain Hauliers Ltd which was established as the transport wing of Grain Bulk Handlers with a clear purpose of supplementing local transport which was often in short supply and impeding efficient deliveries from the terminal. The difference is that Mackenzie Maritime is a private affiliate company covering both local and long haul transport including transit operations as well as providing C&F and warehousing services.

The company’s objective is to facilitate clearing and transport logistics by minimizing delays in the supply chain.

Services are wide ranging and include:

• Clearing and forwarding
• Local shunting to various destinations
• Warehousing of bagged and general cargo
• Local shunting of containers to various depots
• Hire of mobile cranes and lifts
• Transportation of bulk or bagged cargo to destinations outside Mombasa by road or rail.

The company fleet consists of 20 Mercedes Benz AXOR tractor trailer units which are primarily used for local shunting business within Mombasa environs for all types of cargoes; bagged, bulk, containers and project cargoes and have a further fleet of 20 Renault KERAX trucks for cross country transport. These trucks also built for carriage of all types of cargoes and packages.

The company now intends to venture into other areas of transport namely LPG Tanks and liquid products and is already communicating with reliable truck manufacturers and suppliers.

In the interest of improving service delivery, Mackenzie Maritime (EA) Limited has recently purchased some prime property in the industrial hub of Mombasa to cater for warehousing and storage of all types of cargoes. The warehouses are fully operational with a functional railway siding. Other warehouse locations have been taken on a long lease basis. The company currently boasts of a total floor space of 500,000 square foot for both local and transit cargoes. It also operates a yard providing open storage facilities for ore, clinker, steel as well as containers.

Port Management Services Ltd. takes advantage of the wave of privatization to offer its expertise in consultancy and professional skills in management in the areas of cargo handling and port terminal operations. The company is active in three African ports and as far as North America with external parties that have been attracted by the reputation of the world class Grain Bulk Handlers Ltd. terminal in Kenya.

The company is also used as a vehicle to explore and establish available port related opportunities for the Group for its further investment and growth.

Masumin Holding Limited is a premier investor in real estate owners and developers currently owning property valued at approximately Kshs. 0.5 billion ( US$ 7.14M) around Mombasa in Kenya.

One Petroleum Ltd (OPL) is a renowned oil marketing company and a member of a fully integrated group of companies (MJ group of companies) with operations in bulk handling of grain, liquid and gas petroleum products as well as offering container handling and logistical solutions. OPL was incorporated in 2011 to serve as the trading arm of MJ group of companies specializing in the Petroleum industry. It is a subsidiary of Mbaraki Bulk Terminal Limited (MBTL), which is a multi petroleum products handling facility at the port of Mombasa that can handle bulk Bitumen, Diesel, Heavy fuel oil and Kerosene. With headquarters in Mombasa, at Mbaraki wharf, the company also has an office in Eldoret, and has a plan of expanding its business to all provinces in Kenya.

Great Lakes Ports Limited was established to operate an Inland Dry Port at Tororo, Uganda and to offer services with respect to all sea-borne Ugandan international trade.

The service is designed for the benefit of importers and exporters through a fast and efficient process in the clearance, handling, transit movement and delivery of and sea-borne goods. This will significantly increase sea-borne traffic and promote business opportunities and profitability in Uganda and the Great Lakes region as a whole.

MJ Group acquired in early December 2005, all the assets of East African Molasses Company Ltd located at the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), Mbaraki Wharf and transferred the said assets to a newly Incorporated Company aptly named Mbaraki Bulk Terminal Limited (MBTL).

MBTL is a multi product common user handling facility capable of handling bulk Bitumen, Diesel, Heavy fuel oil, kerosene and palm oil. It is the only terminal in East Africa that is capable of handling bulk bitumen.

With a total storage capacity of 50,000 metric tonnes, MBTL is one of the largest private facilities at the port of Mombasa whilst being the only terminal to have a dedicated berth with draft enough to handle vessels of up to 50,000DWT

Soon the port of Mombasa will be dredged and this will allow MBTL to handle vessels of up to 80,000 DWT. With room for expansion, MBTL offers a long-term solution to the highly congested berths that are shared between all other oil marketing companies. Furthermore, MBTL has the capability to service both road and rail networks for distribution.

MBTL has 37 employees

Introduction

The Great Lakes Ports Limited – Changamwe Container Freight Station (GLPL-Changamwe CFS) is a purpose designed state of the art privately operated common user facility, offering services for handling and temporary storage of import/export and empty containers carried under customs control.

Customs and other agencies required to clear goods for domestic use, warehousing, re-export, temporary storage for onward transit and outright export and Transhipment of cargo shall operate from here.

Function

The GLPL – Changamwe CFS is situated along the main Mombasa – Nairobi highway within a radius of 4 Km from the Port of Mombasa near Moi International Airport (MIA) – Mombasa, Kenya. It shall serve as an off waterfront facility assisting in decongesting the port by shifting cargo and Customs related activities outside the port area.

Functionally, it shall offer services for containerisation of break bulk cargo and vice-versa (LCL) as well as clearance of Full Container Loads (FCL). These will be served by rail and/ or road transport. The primary functions of CFS are summed up as under:

• Receipt and dispatch/delivery of Containers/Cargo.
• Stuffing and Stripping of Containers.
• Transit operations by rail/road to and from the Port of Mombasa.
• Customs clearance.
• Consolidation and desegregation of LCL cargo.
• Temporary storage of cargo and containers.
• Reworking of containers.
• Maintenance and repair of container units.

Facilities

The GLPL- Changamwe Container Freight Station (CFS) consists of the following facilities:

a) Container Yard

A standard cabro paved Container Yard for heavy duty equipment use in the operation and stacking at the terminal. The Yard/Terminal is surrounded by boundary wall according to KRA Customs standards specification.

Container Yard occupies the largest area at the CFS. The stacking area where the export containers shall be consolidated prior to dispatch to port, import containers stacked till Customs clearance and where empties await onward movement. Some stacking areas shall be designated for keeping special containers such as refrigerated, hazardous, overweight/over-height, etc. and will be serviced by Internal roads and circulating areas.

b) Warehouse

A covered area/shed where export cargo can be received and import cargo stored/delivered; containers will be stuffed/stripped; LCL exports will be consolidated and import LCLs will be unpacked; and cargo physically examined by Customs. Export and import consignments will generally be handled at separate areas in the warehouse.

c) Gate Complex

Separate gate complexes shall regulate the entry and exit of road vehicles carrying cargo and containers through the terminal. This is where electronic documentation processing, security and container inspection procedures shall be undertaken.

The Gates will be equipped with electronic weighbridges.

d) Rail Siding

GLPL – Changamwe CFS is the only CFS in near the port of Mombasa where Container Trains shall be received, dispatched and handled. The containers shall be loaded on and unloaded from rail wagons at the siding using various lifting equipments.

e) Office Block

Office building for CFS, Customs Office and a separate block for user agencies equipped with standard facilities required for such offices.

f) Parking Yard

Parking/Holding space of vehicles/trucks awaiting entry to the terminal is provided.

g) Equipment

The Changamwe CFS Yard shall have adequate numbers of equipment to ensure efficient delivery of all operational activities.

Reach Stackers will be the primary container handling equipment.

To mitigate against the power outages GLPL - Changamwe CFS will be equipped with a 500KVA diesel powered generator.

It is planned to position at least 2 GLPL owned Reach Stackers within the port to forestall against inability of the port to handle GLPL traffic continuously on a 24/7 basis.

Although Reach Stackers can handle both full and empty containers, dedicated empty container handlers will cater for Empty Container (MTs) operations.

2- 5 Mt Fork Lift Trucks will be the handling equipment, for stripping/stuffing operations.

h) Security

It has been our concern from the onset to have an elaborate and efficient security and safety plan so safeguard the interests of our clients, cargo, infrastructure and personnel.

The security measures to be taken shall cover:-

1. A perimeter wall topped up with an electric fence to deter intrusion by scaling.
2. 24- Hour security guards surveillance.
3. 24 – Hour static security guards man the gates, to carry out inspections of all trucks and persons into and out of the CFS.
4. 24 –hour CCTV surveillance shall be established to monitor all movements within and around the terminal thus enhancing the existing security.
5. Access Control - All employees shall be identified by staff passes and visitors will be issued with passes to enter upon conforming to our security and safety requirements. These controls shall also cover checks on possible threats associated with terrorism arising from intrusion by unauthorized people.
6. The railway gate - The gate is entry and exit point to rail traffic at the terminal. It will be guarded and under lock and key. It shall open only to allow shunting wagons into/out of the CFS.
7. Lighting - The entire terminal shall also be fitted with security lights and have standby generators, which will ensure lighting is sustained in case of loss of power or when the main supply is interrupted.

African Gas and Oil Company Ltd (AGOL) has embarked on the construction of a modern common-user Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Terminal in and adjacent to the Port of Mombasa.

The modern terminal will comprise of bulk LPG receiving, storage and redelivery facilities, and will handle imported LPG for local use, for export to neighboring countries and the Indian Ocean islands.

Upon connection to the Mombasa Refinery, imported LPG can be pumped through the Refinery system to Oil Companies depots in Changamwe and Shimanzi.

The facility is in line with the Government’s objective of promoting LPG as an efficient and clean source of energy with the ultimate goal of curbing Deforestation in Kenya and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Lake Charles is located in Southwest Louisiana in the Calcasieu Parish. The Port covers 203 square miles and is the 11th largest port in the United States based on tonnage handled.

Its Ship channel stretching from the US Gulf to City docks has a depth of 40 feet and a bottom width of 400 feet.

Gas Petro Bulk Ltd was formed to establish a state-of-the-art Bitumen bulk terminal.

The site is located along the main Kipevu road within the Port of Mombasa and is bounded by Gulf Stream Edible Oil storage tank farm to the north and pipeline way leave connecting Shimanzi Oil Terminal (SOT) Oil Terminals.

GBHL is the flagship of the Group and with its world-class standards; GBHL has quickly become a distribution hub for commodity traders and relief agencies that utilize the Port of Mombasa to serve regional demand.

It offers you efficient and cost-effective solutions for receiving, handling and storing your grain in a hygienic and environmentally friendly manner which by far surpasses the conventional methods of using grabs and vacuators.

A Kenya Ports Authority study states that it is the only port activity performing to international standards in terms of productivity.