THE STANDARD
OPINION
A first cargo ship offloads containers at Lamu Port on May 20, 2021.[Omondi Onyango, Standard]
I was in Lamu last week for the official opening of the port; a proud moment for Kenya. I left Lamu with a sense of déjà vu.
In 1993 I visited the Port of Salalah in Oman. The port was dead and there was not a single ship in any of the newly constructed berths.
Salalah, which is at the entrance of the Red Sea and close to the Suez Canal, is the best located port in order of access to the Indian Ocean, Middle East Indian subcontinent and East Africa.
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