Kenya Ports Authority has commissioned new terminal equipment worth Sh280 million as a part of it’s on going Sh5 billion Mombasa port modernization program that began in 2002. It had bought 20 new terminal tractors at a cost of Sh140 million from the Netherlands, 5 forklifts from Sweden at Sh71 million and a set of pollution control equipment at Sh70 million from the UK.

The new pollution control equipment consists of booms, skimmers, storage tanks, workers' protection gears and power generators all meant to combat cases of oil spills in the harbor channel and on the beaches.

Last year, KPA bought ship to shore gantry cranes, rail mounted gantry cranes, 2 pilot, 3 tug, two patrol and two mooring boats.