	kenya signs pact to establish own ping line kenya has signed an agreement with british and german interests to establish a ping line that will handle pct of the country s external trade sources close to the deal said the state owned kenya ports authority kpa signed an agreement with the hamburg based ping line unimar seetransport to establish the kenya national ping line with an initial capital of mln shillings sources said kpa will hold pct of the shares in the new company the line will initially charter vessels to operate services between mombasa and the main ports of industrial europe but may eventually build or buy its own s the sources said it would aim to carry a large part of kenya s coffee and tea exports and oil and fertiliser imports reuter 
