Posted on April 1, 2020

The Kenyan airfreight export business is being badly affected by closed borders and lack of air freight capacity.
There has been a notable drop in exports sent by air.

Apart from freight space being severely limited, the present situation is creating too much uncertianty for exporters.

Sea exports are continuing as usual, and at present avocado shipments had not been affected.

Kenya exported an estimated US$5.1bn worth of products around the world in 2018.

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