Penetration grade 60/70 and 80/100 in drums, discharged at Mombasa and Dar es Salaam for the Northern and Central corridors.
East African road programmes are supplied through two gateways. Mombasa feeds the Northern Corridor into Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and eastern DR Congo. Dar es Salaam feeds the Central Corridor into Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and the Zambian copperbelt.
What matters commercially is that the sea leg is the short part of the journey. Cargo that discharges at Mombasa may still have 1,200 km of road ahead of it. That single fact decides the packing, and it is why drums dominate this market while jumbo bags do not.
A 180 kg drum is handled, restacked and hauled by road repeatedly before it reaches site. It takes that treatment. A jumbo bag handled the same way does not.
Drums let a contractor move bitumen to several sites from one container, which suits dispersed road works far better than a fixed-plant delivery.
Empty drums hold value on site across the region, which quietly offsets part of the landed cost.
Where the buyer runs a fixed asphalt plant near the port, 1 MT jumbo bags remain the cleaner option and are supplied on the same terms.
Kenya and Tanzania both operate pre-export conformity schemes — the Kenya Bureau of Standards PVoC programme and the Tanzania Bureau of Standards equivalent. Where a consignment falls within scope, a Certificate of Conformity has to be issued before the cargo sails. A shipment that arrives without one faces penalty charges, destination testing, and in the worst case refusal of entry.
We treat this as part of the loading process rather than as the buyer’s problem at the other end. Inspection is already taking place at the load port for quality and weight; conformity assessment is arranged alongside it when the destination requires it, and the certificate travels with the document set.
| Port | Country | Corridor and inland destinations |
|---|---|---|
| Mombasa | Kenya | Northern Corridor — Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, eastern DR Congo, South Sudan |
| Dar es Salaam | Tanzania | Central Corridor — Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Zambia, Malawi |
| Djibouti | Djibouti | Ethiopian highway programmes |
| Beira | Mozambique | Beira Corridor — Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi |
West and Southern African ports are quoted on request; Durban and Port Elizabeth are served on the same terms.
