What the Data Shows
Mombasa port’s container traffic is tracked annually from 2015 to 2024. Values are twenty-foot-equivalent units, or TEU, a standard measure of container capacity; 2024 is provisional. Throughput increased from 1.08 million TEU in 2015 to 2.00 million in 2024, a gain of 928,565 TEU. The 2024 total was 86.3% above 2015 and 23.5% above 2023.
Data table
2015 1.08
2016 1.09
2018 1.30
2019 1.42
2020 1.36
2021 1.44
2023 1.62
2024 2.00
Sources
Source 1: Economic Survey 2020
Publisher: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics
Dataset/table: Port of Mombasa container traffic
Units: TEU
Date checked: 2026-07-17
Evidence: Provides Kenya’s 2015–2019 Mombasa container traffic.
Source 2: Economic Survey 2025
Publisher: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics
Dataset/table: Port of Mombasa container traffic
Units: TEU
Date checked: 2026-07-17
Evidence: Provides Kenya’s 2020–2024 Mombasa container traffic.
Data notes & caveats
TEU means twenty-foot-equivalent unit, the standard capacity measure for shipping containers. The 2024 figure is provisional.
Methodology
Annual container totals are taken from the Port of Mombasa traffic figures in the 2020 and 2025 Kenya Economic Surveys.
Source consistency notes
Every observation refers to Mombasa port and uses the same annual TEU basis.
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