Mideast War Leaves 6,000 Tonnes of Tea Stuck at Kenya Port

Mideast war leaves 6,000 tonnes of tea stuck at Kenya port

Between 6,000 and 8,000 tonnes of tea, worth around $24 million, is stuck at Kenya’s port of Mombasa because of the war in the Middle East, trade officials said Friday. The East African Tea Trade Association (EATTA) manages auctions at the port city, which serves as a global marketplace where hundreds of thousands of tonnes of tea from the region are sold every year. Around 65 percent of the east African tea market has been affected by the war …