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Rwanda is not short of e-commerce platforms, but Gombo is stretching muscles to disrupt the marketplace with a unique entry point, buying fresh items from various farmers and distributing to the end user.
Other players buy from middlemen, increasing the price of each item to secure a margin on each sell. What Gombo does, basically, is to focus on delivery of fresh foods at a faster, easier way, and at a lower price.
In partnership with farmers, Gombo uses existing food collection centers and stocks up its stores where distribution is flowless and convenient. And thats not all, because Gombo’s products can be returned within 24 hours from the delivery time, a rare and competitive advantage to the consumers, mainly hotels, restaurants and the diaspora who need to buy groceries for their relatives back home.
Sunday 23 May 2021 - 11:15am
Cranes set at the Lamu Port, in Lamu, in Kenya on the inauguration day of the first berth of the harbour.
AFP/Dihoff Mukoto
LAMU - A new deep-water port at the Kenyan island of Lamu launched a potential trade corridor for neighbouring countries despite local opposition.
The $3-billion Lamu Port is part of an ambitious $23-billion regional transport corridor known as LAPSSET, or the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor, launched nearly a decade ago, in 2012.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta presided over the commissioning ceremony.
From the start, the 32-berth port has faced opposition from local businessmen who depend heavily on tourism and fishing, as well as from environmental groups.
Kakuzi celebrates Lamu port operationalisation with Avocado cargo headed to France
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Kakuzi has celebrated the operationalization of the new Port of Lamu with an inaugural 80-ton cargo of Avocados to France.
Fresh Avocados grown at the Kakuzi Makuyu orchards were part of the cargo loaded on cargo Ship MV Seago Bremerhaven at the Port of Lamu en-route France.
Speaking when he confirmed the firm’s export load, Kakuzi Managing Director Chris Flowers said, “As a truly Kenyan agribusiness firm, we are excited at the operationalization of the first berth at the Port of Lamu. This development begins to crystallize the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport Corridor project, which will benefit Kenyan producers immensely and congratulate the Government and the Kenya Ports Authority among the other development partners for this milestone,” Flowers said.
First ships dock at Kenya’s Lamu deep water port
The first ships docked at Kenya’s deep water Lamu Port on Thursday as the country looks to open a new transport corridor linking its vast northern region and neighboring nations to the sea.
Kenyan officials hope that the Indian Ocean port, the country’s second deep water facility, will attract cargo destined for neighboring landlocked nations Ethiopia and South Sudan, and offer transhipment services where large vessels bring in cargo for onward distribution by smaller ships.
The Lamu Port, which is being built by China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), will cost $3 billion to complete over several years. It will compete with ports in Djibouti and Sudan and Kenya’s main port of Mombasa.