Nairobi, May 15 -- The Port of Mombasa is facing a pile-up of goods as majority of truck drivers are yet to been tested and issued with Covid-19-free certificates, a move that risks derailing movement of goods to the hinterland and neighbouring countries.
Less than 5,000 of the more than 25,000 truck operators plying the Northern Corridor route have been tested, meaning that they cannot transport cargo at a time when Kenya has frozen shipment of goods through the standard gauge railway (SGR) line due to restrictions of movement in both Mombasa and Nairobi to contain the spread of the virus.
This has paralysed cargo transport and some landlocked East African States could find themselves facing shortages of fuel and other key imports.
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