Mombasa to push PPP deals

摘要

In his end-of-year message, James Mulewa, managing director of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), stressed that public/private sector partnerships were necessary if ports in the country were to raise their cargo-handling capacity and improve their productivity. A series of announcements made during 2009 had raised various concerns about such initiatives, with unions seeing any moves towards privatisation as impacting their members' jobs. Mulewa's end of year message sought to allay such fears. He wrote: 'The management strategy to engage the public/private sector partnership in port business is meant to enhance port capacity and competitiveness in response to the market demands.