Nairobi, April 13 -- Local investors and financial institutions, including pension funds, are primed for new opportunities as the Treasury targets them to fund the public-private-partnership (PPP) deals for seven more Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) assets, extending its policy shift toward domestic financing of mega infrastructure projects.

Disclosures by the Treasury show that local investors and financial institutions would be granted priority to finance the planned PPP deals, including Mombasa port container terminal II (Berths 20-22); Mombasa port container terminal (Berths 23-24); Mombasa port cargo terminal - Mbaraki Wharfs; and the Mombasa port cargo terminal - Berths 1-5.

The Mombasa port cargo terminal (Berths 7-10), Inland Contai...