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Kenya: KPA to Mark 30th Anniversary With Pomp
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Business Daily (Nairobi)
25 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
Joseph Kazungu
Nairobi
Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) is celebrating its 30th anniversary and intends to showcase to Kenyans its achievements since its incorporation.
The management has lined up week-long activities, which would include exhibition, sports, beach cleaning, offshore port tours, conferences and presentations to mark the anniversary.
KPA came into being via an Act of Parliament of January 20, 1978. This means the anniversary would have been marked two months ago, but it did not come to pass owing to the political unrest in the country then.
"The management has appointed a committee which is currently working round the clock to plan and stage the week-long celebrations," said the Press officer, Mr Sylvan Mghanga.
He said the management has picked April 17 - 25 as the suitable dates subject to further confirmation.
He said the port was going to involve shipping industry stakeholders, members of the public, leaders, professionals and staff in the events.
Formation of the KPA in 1978 is a culmination of interesting political and economic developments in Kenya and East Africa.
When Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania joined together in 1967 to form the original East African Community, they also created a new authority - the East African Harbour Corporation - to run the principal ports of Dar- es- Salaam, Mombasa and the oil port of Tanga.
But the EAC collapsed in 1977 after serious disagreements among the Heads of States.
The other two partners felt that Kenya was the only beneficiary of the coming together given that the main industries were in the country and only the political headquarters were in the other states.
The countries also had different economic structures with Kenya under the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, a purely capitalistic state.
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Tanzania, under another founding father Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, followed socialism through the Ujamaa principles while Uganda under dictator Idi Amin was trying to balance itself between the two.
After the collapse of EAC, the Kenya government took over the running of the port temporarily before it established KPA a year later.
In 1986, KPA merged with the autonomous and State owned Kenya Cargo Handling Ltd to form a single body responsible for all aspects of national port development and operations.
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