More cruise ships continue to call at the Port of Mombasa as the Kenya Ports Authority insisted yesterday the construction of cruise ship terminal will be completed by July next year.
A cruise ship MV Nautica yesterday docked at the port with 654 passengers and 396 crew members on board. The tourists, enroute to Seychelles, were on a one-day excursion to Shimba Hills, Malindi, Amboseli and Mombasa town.
The ship was making its second call this season, having made the first one on December 10. Another vessel MV Silva Cloud docked on December 6. KPA spokesperson Haji Masemo said two other vessels will dock in the next two months.
Speaking when he welcomed more than 1,000 cruise tourists, Masemo said interior partitioning for the proposed terminal in line with set standards has started. He said the terminal will enable the port to bag more accolades.

Hopes on cruise ship tourism were revived after the government restored calm following a series of incursion by pirates. Ships were diverted North, some tourists were abducted and ransoms amounting to millions of shillings was demanded.
Masemo said the terminal will increase the number of cruise vessels docking at the port. The KPA said it hopes visitor numbers will improve significantly. TMA last December said 10.5 per cent of Kenya’s GDP comes from tourism, projecting an annual growth of five per cent till 2025.
Source: The Star

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