East Africa
Cargo to and from Uganda
The largest transit market on the Northern Corridor, served from Mombasa.
Uganda is the single biggest destination for cargo leaving Mombasa, and the reason the Northern Corridor exists in the shape it does. Kampala is roughly 1,170 km from the port, through Nairobi and Eldoret and out at Malaba or Busia. For a landlocked market that distance is the easy part. The transit entry is the hard part.
A Uganda-bound container spends its whole Kenyan leg under bond, and the entry has to close cleanly at the border or the consequences land on the cargo owner rather than on whoever filed it. Britex handles the bond, the transit documentation, and the haulage as one piece of work, which is the point: there is no handover in the middle where the paperwork and the truck stop belonging to the same team.
At a glance
- Mombasa
- gateway port
- 1,170 km
- Mombasa to Kampala by road
- Northern
- corridor
- Malaba
- principal border post
How cargo reaches Uganda
Principal routing
- Port of Mombasa
- Malaba or Busia border
- Kampala
Via the Central Corridor
- Dar es Salaam
- Mutukula border
- Kampala
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
Border posts on these routes
What moves on this lane
The commodities that dominate Uganda’s containerised trade, and what we are most often asked to handle.
Inbound to Uganda
- Fuel and lubricants
- Construction materials and steel
- Machinery and industrial plant
- Consumer goods and retail stock
Outbound from Uganda
- Coffee
- Tea
- Fish and fish products
- Cotton and textiles
What we handle for Uganda
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 Uganda?
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.