East Africa
Cargo to and from Kenya
Our home market, and the gateway the other eleven are served through.
Kenya is where Britex is based and where the shortest journey we run happens. The Port of Mombasa is the busiest container gateway in East Africa and the head of the Northern Corridor, and our offices at Canon Towers on Moi Avenue are minutes from it. Cargo landing here clears, is handled, and moves inland inside one operation rather than being handed between three.
Domestic Kenyan cargo is where tight coordination earns its keep most visibly. Nairobi is roughly 485 km up the highway, with the standard gauge railway and the inland container depots at Embakasi and Naivasha as alternatives to road for part of the leg. Which one a container takes is a cost and timing decision made per shipment, not a fixed rule.
At a glance
- Mombasa
- gateway port
- 485 km
- Mombasa to Nairobi by road
- ICD
- inland depots at Nairobi and Naivasha
- Northern
- corridor
How cargo reaches Kenya
Principal routing
- Port of Mombasa
- Nairobi and upcountry
By rail
- Port of Mombasa
- SGR
- ICD Nairobi or Naivasha
- Final delivery
We don’t publish transit times against a route. Distance and corridor are geography; what a specific container takes depends on the border, the season and the vessel. Ask us and we’ll commit to a timing against your actual shipment.
Destinations we deliver to
What moves on this lane
The commodities that dominate Kenya’s containerised trade, and what we are most often asked to handle.
Inbound to Kenya
- Consumer goods and retail stock
- Construction materials
- Machinery and spare parts
- Agricultural inputs and fertiliser
Outbound from Kenya
- Tea and coffee
- Horticulture and cut flowers, under reefer
- Processed foods
- Textiles and apparel
What we handle for Kenya
Britex has presence and yards across the thirteen countries we cover. The same six services apply on this lane as on every other.
Also in East Africa
Moving cargo to Kenya?
Tell us the destination and what’s in the box, and we’ll come back with the routing and what it takes to get there.