Kenya · Infrastructure
Where Kenya’s air cargo was handled from 2021 to 2025
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport handled 408,409 tonnes of commercial cargo in 2025, or about 97.3% of the total reported by Kenya’s statistics bureau. Moi International Airport handled 6,208 tonnes.
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- Jomo Kenyatta International Airport408,408.9 tonnes of cargo
- Moi International Airport6,207.9 tonnes of cargo
Natural Earth land outlines and dashed land boundaries.
The map shows the two airports reported individually by KNBS. Cargo at the other airports appears as one combined row in the table.
Nairobi accounted for most of the national increase
The provisional total reached 419,751.6 tonnes in 2025, up from 372,993.0 in 2024. JKIA’s own figure rose by 43,587 tonnes, making up most of the increase across the airport groups. Source 1
Moi increased from a much smaller base
Moi moved from 2,021.3 tonnes in 2021 to 6,207.9 tonnes in 2025. Its recent increase was large in percentage terms, while JKIA still handled about 66 times as much cargo by weight. Reading volumes and growth rates together makes that scale visible. Source 1
The map and the table use different levels of geography
KNBS publishes separate numbers for Nairobi’s JKIA and Mombasa’s Moi, plus a combined group for other airports. The figure marks only the airports with individual figures. The two map points are airport location references, while the tonnage comes from the cargo table. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3
Cargo throughput tracks handling at the airport
KNBS counts tonnes loaded and landed. These volumes describe handling activity and leave commodity, shipper and onward destination unspecified. A route or commodity analysis would need the relevant customs or transport records. Source 1