Official data indicates that most of the 1,400 tonnes of goods that still pass through Kisumu port are from Uganda and Tanzania after Kenyan traders cut their usage of the facility to only 30 per cent of throughput.

Erad Supplies told the court that storage costs incurred between September 2004 and January 2005 were based on invoices of $1,146,000 from Chelsea Freight, a company based in South Africa.

Kenya Vehicle Manufacturers (KVM) has stepped up the assembly of Hyundai light trucks for CICA Motors, the distributor for Kenya.