Saturday, May 16, 2020

Where is the Mombasa Industrial Area?

Well, I think that there are several industrial areas in Mombasa.
In Mombasa Island, we have an industrial area in Shimanzi, along the old meter gauge railway line.
In Mombasa west, we have an industrial area in Changamwe (within the area where Changamwe EPZ are located, just past the Changamwe Kenya Petroleum Refinery Limited). Another one is along the road connecting Mombasa to Nairobi, around Miritini – actually the area just past Mikindani has a number of industries. Starting with the Kitui Flour Mills that is right on the Mikindani junction (where the Mikindani interchange is taking shape). And moving on – along that road – to the King’orani EPZ area and on to Jomvu where Pwani Oil is to be found overlooking the Jomvu junction (where the Jomvu interchange is taking shape). And on to Miritini where there vehicle assembly industries, as well as an iron sheets rolling mill and industries such as Kenya Vox.
In the north coast, there is Bamburi mtambo area where there is just a single plant (Bamburi Cement Mombasa Factory) that is nonetheless equivalent to several factories given its size and scale of operations.
There is yet another industrial area in Mombasa North, just after Mtwapa, where you find the Coast Bottlers Limited, the various Mtwapa EPZs in Majengo Kanamai, the noodles company… among others. 
So the Mombasa industrial area is not one centralized place like the Nairobi industrial area, but rather, what we have in Mombasa  are different ‘industrial areas’ including the one in Shimanzi, the one in Changamwe, the one on the road to Nairobi and the one at Mtwapa EPZ.

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