LAMU PORT

White Volkswagen T-Roc SUVs drive down the loading ramp of the Grande Auckland car carrier, operated by Grimaldi Lines, at the Port of Lamu in Kenya, with port workers in high-visibility vests directing the offloading operation

From Hormuz to Lamu: the fragile rise of African ports

30/04/202601/05/2026

A car carrier unloads 469 vehicles at Lamu, a port that barely functioned a year ago. The Iran war has placed African ports at the centre of a reshuffled global trade map

LAMU PORT

From Hormuz to Lamu: the fragile rise of African ports

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