- Importers have been given a final window to reclaim cargo held at Nairobi container depots.
- KRA has scheduled a four-day online auction featuring consignments from several major companies.
- Food products, pharmaceuticals, industrial machinery and construction materials feature among the goods listed.
Importers who have left cargo sitting in Nairobi’s container depots have until about the end of November to collect it. After that, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) will sell it online.
A Gazette Notice dated October 30, 2026, gives owners 30 days to file their customs entries and take their consignments out of the warehouse keeper’s custody. Anything still there after the deadline will be treated as abandoned. KRA will then sell it under section 42 of the East African Community Customs Management Act, 2004.
Bidding will run for four days, from December 14 to December 17, 2026, on KRA’s iBid portal. Before that, buyers can view the goods where they are stored on December 10 and 11, during normal working hours.
Food and medicine appear on the list, but so do heavy machinery and building supplies. Among the cargo is 1,260 packages of fortified rice and soy meal destined for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of South Sudan. Safi Trading Company has 1,695 cartons of confectionery in the queue, while Bunyaan General Trading Company Limited has 1,200 packages of engine oil and 1,750 of baby diapers. Chevron General Trading Limited’s gear oil and diesel oil are listed too, and a number of the consignments are bound for South Sudan.
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Agribusiness and manufacturing firms feature heavily. Tarita Farm Limited and Tarita Dairies Limited have poultry equipment and dairy processing machinery among their listed cargo. Stronova Waters Company Limited has water filling equipment, purifiers, dispensers and electrical cabinets listed, and Stronova Waters SEZ has a further 696 packages of related equipment.
Magman Manufacturers Limited’s rubber shoe moulding machinery is also on the list. So are Promitto Limited’s 1,017 packages of MDF door skins and Crescent (K) Limited’s 752 packages of polyester fabric.
At Embakasi, Fanaka Aluminium Company Limited’s aluminium ingots and 1,080 packages of polyethene resin for Infinity Plastics Industries face the hammer. Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited has 466 packages of materials for power line and service cable projects in the same position. Agrochemicals from Farmyard International Investment Limited and Second Chance Connections Limited are on the list, as are drugs consigned to Planet Pharmaceuticals (U) Limited, Biodeal Laboratories Limited and Unisel Limited.
Smaller lots round out the schedule. Ceramic tiles belong to O Trade Logistics Limited and Rocoli Contractors Limited, and Primelick Vet Company Limited has 1,000 bags of animal feed supplements. Others named include Seremala Construction and Engineering Limited, Cytek Solar Limited, Crown Solutions Limited, Blue Scope Shipping and Logistics Limited, Koko Networks Limited and Megvel Cartons Limited. Their cargo covers block making machinery, solar cables, industrial chillers, milk dispensers and corrugated board equipment. Two motorcycles and several lots of personal effects are also up for sale.
The goods sit at several sites. These include Autoport Freight Terminal, Chai Logistics Centre, Compact Free Trade Zone, Mitchell Cotts Freight Limited, and the Embakasi and Syokimau inland container depots.
By Benedict Aoya
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