The Port of Lamu recorded its biggest single-vessel container discharge yet when the 366-metre MV Hamouna offloaded about 5,200 twenty-foot equivalent units on Saturday, 3 October 2026. Port managers said even Mombasa has not handled more than 5,000 TEUs from one call.
The vessel, reported as arriving from China, has a total capacity of about 14,500 TEUs. Part of the cargo is to be transshipped to other destinations by smaller feeder ships. It approached through Lamu’s Eastern Channel before berthing.
The call comes as the government promotes Lamu as a logistics hub along the LAPSSET corridor and as the site of the planned Dangote East Africa refinery. President William Ruto has said the government will put about Sh7.5 billion into 3,000 housing units in Lamu to support related development.
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