About Us

In September 2004, The Kenya Shippers' Council was registered as a society by the Kenya International Freight and Warehouse Association (KIFWA) an association of Clearing and Forwarding companies

In November 2004, a meeting of interested parties was convened under the chairmanship of the Ministry of Trade and Industry and sponsorship of the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) to initiate the transfer of control of the Council from KIFWA to the cargo owners. This was in line with the stated goals of the KSC to represent the interests of the cargo owners.

KSC was officially relaunched as a representative organization on 25 th October 2006 by the Minister of Transport Hon. Amb. Chirau Ali Mwakwere and mandated by its members to assume its responsibilities and commence operations.

The Shippers' Council provides a platform to articulate Shippers' concerns and demands to these service providers and government institutions. It provides a cross-sector liaison forum for discussions with a wide variety of logistics and service providers. Shippers have individually found themselves unable to negotiate effectively with organized transport service providers such as shipping line conferences, airlines, road Hauliers, and railways resulting in cost recovery being passed to shippers.

Kenyan shippers' are also affected by multiplicity of government enforcement agencies at ports of entry and exit that include customs, KEBS, KEPHIS, and Port Health, police and security agencies that lengthen the process of documentation, clearance, release and delivery of cargo. There is need to develop a best practice system by working with the transport and logistics providers to encourage them to benchmark their services and agree on key performance indicators and how to implement them.