The Supreme Court has cancelled a decision by the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) awarding Portside Freight Terminals Limited a tender to develop a second bulk grain handling facility at the port.
Portside had been selected to construct a grain facility and an island berth at the G-Section area to handle all grains and other dry bulk cargo, operating as a common user facility with "priority berthing" rights for a period of 33 years, renewable.
KPA had resolved to establish the second bulk grain handling stream to supplement the first facility, initially operated by Grain Bulk Handlers (GBH), now renamed Bulkstream, located at the Port of Mombasa.
According to its master plan, KPA had envisioned the construction and operationalisation of a second grain facility at either Dongo Kundu or Lamu Port.
