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Port finance and regulation in Kenya

February 14th, 2022 Featured, Presentations

This latest book chapter of PortEconomics member Michael Dooms co-authored by Denis Lewa Muganga (Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority (NCTTCA) Mombasa, Kenya) discusses the case of the Kenyan port system from the angle of Port Finance and Regulation. Next to being Kenya’s major port, the Port of Mombasa is a key gateway for landlocked countries such as Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

The region is characterized by an increasing degree of port competition with, e.g., the presence of the ports of Dar-Es-Salaam (Tanzania) and the port of Djibouti (Djibouti). Both Kenya and Tanzania have planned the construction of new mega-port complexes in a bid to become leading transhipment hubs not only for containers but also for other traffic such as petroleum products exported out of Uganda.

The book chapter presents a discussion on how these evolutions influence port finance and regulation in the region. First, Kenya’s port system and performance are analyzed from a historical perspective, after which we describe the main port regulation and financial instruments, using internal documents of the Kenya Ports Authority such as financial, business and master plans. A future outlook is provided as a conclusion.

The book chapter has been published in Regulation and Finance in the Port Industry: Lessons from Worldwide Experiences (eds Claudio Ferrari, Hercules Haralambides, Sergio Prete and Alessio Tei), Palgrave Macmillan. Follow the link to find more on the chapter and the collective book.

dr. Michaël Dooms (MSc & PhD, Applied Economics: Business and Technology, Solvay Business School, University of Brussels) is associate professor at the Solvay Business School at the University of Brussels (VUB). He is program director of the MSc in Management/Bedrijfskunde, teaches courses in Management and Strategy, Organization Design & Change, and is responsible for the internship program and foreign trade mission. For the trade mission project, since 2007, he has supervised more than 150 projects on the field aimed at foreign market expansion in emerging economies such as, inter alia, India, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Kenya, Colombia. His PhD Thesis won the 2011 Palgrave MacMillan MEL PhD Competition (4th edition). It treats the spatial and dynamic aspects of stakeholder management, with an application to large-scale infrastructure projects, including port projects, master plans, and vision cases. He is a member of PortEconomics.eu and a member of the Port Performance Research Network (PPRN), where he co-animates the port authority strategy group. His other research interests are in the fields of complex project evaluation (of large scale infrastructure projects), stakeholder management and corporate strategies. He is currently a guest professor of port management and strategy at universities in the Netherlands (MEL-Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Greece (AUEB), and formerly in Belgium (Antwerp, ITMMA). He has worked as a project manager and researcher on the formulation, evaluation, management and implementation of infrastructure development projects, strategies and visions characterized by a multi-disciplinary (integration of technical, economic and environmental criteria) and multi-stakeholder (public and private sector, local communities) approach, exceeding a total value of more than 10 million euros. Among the principals in contract research and consultancy are infrastructure managers (port authorities, airports, railway infrastructure,...), private construction firms and project developers, regional development agencies, stakeholder interest groups, trade associations, and various government levels (local, regional, national, transnational). In the field of strategy and organizational change, he was a key member of the strategy office developing and implementing of a strategic plan for the Belgian rail infrastructure manager Infrabel (2006-2010). In the management of the University of Brussels, he was vice-chairman of the Board of Directors during 2005-2008. He also co-founded a university spin-off company. From 2013 onwards, he leads the PORTOPIA project (www.portopia.eu), a large EU-FP7 collaborative research project on port performance measurement.

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