Mombasa - Clearance
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Proceed into the harbor and when you reach the pilot station, contact Mombasa Port Control on VHF Channel 12 and request permission to proceed to English Point Marina for clearance.
This marina opened in 2015 and all clearance formalities must be completed here.
Last updated April 2018.
Old information waiting for confirmation that clearance elsewhere is still possible.
There are two places in Mombasa where clearance is possible. Formalities appear to be simpler at the Old Port, on the northern side of Mombasa Island, where officials are more efficient than those at Kilindini Harbour, which is the main commercial port. While clearing, one can anchor beyond the port building among the shows. At the Old Port, a launch may come out with the officials. If no one comes, the captain should go ashore and report first to Customs and then Immigration. Customs and Immigration offices are by the jetties, which are used by small local freighters and shows. The officials at the Old Port do not work at weekends or on holidays when it is necessary to go to Kilindini Harbour. Here it is best to proceed to the police pontoon, where one can be cleared by Customs, Health, and Immigration.
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Report from the Mombasa Yacht Club:
We have not had moorings for many years now, and the jetty vanished in 1997. English point was our recommended mooring point however they have yet to finish their marina.
I would recommend at this time not entering Mombasa at all.
We have had a constant war with the Kenya Ports Authority on yachts entering Kenya through Mombasa Port. It is likely to cost in excess of USD$2,000 to come in, which is quite frankly stupid.
Visiting yachts should enter Kenya through Shimoni in the south, although there is minimal facilities there and the cost is about USD$4. Better still is to enter through Kilifi where there is good facilities (no dockage), good moorings and Peter Bateman at the Kilifi Boat Yard is very helpful. They will arrange clearance to come from Watamu and the whole process is about USD$120.
Kilifi has a yacht club with food and beverage facilities inside the boatyard and almost every sailing yacht in Kenya is moored there.
Regards
Philip Jones
Vice Commodore
Mombasa Yacht Club