AIG travel insurance cover available online

By John Oyuke

Agents can now buy AIG Kenya travel insurance cover online.

Travel agents and brokers can buy the product through an interactive website launched on Thursday.

"We are committed to being a leader in general insurance services through innovation in information technology and consistent provision of quality customer care", AIG managing director Mr Japh Olende said during the launch of the new product in Nairobi.

Olende stressed the importance of making travel insurance because no one knows what could happen while on a trip either locally or abroad.

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Traders lobby for tea centre in Mombasa

By Philip Mwakio

Tea industry players are pushing for the establishment of a trading centre in Mombasa to ward off competition from the Dubai Tea Trading Centre in the Middle East.

Speaking during a tour of the Mombasa Tea Auction on Wednesday by Agriculture Minister, Mr Kipruto Kirwa, Tea Board of Kenya chairman, Mr Dunstan Ngumo, said an exodus of tea traders was imminent in Mombasa following the establishment of the centre in Dubai.

He said Mombasa needs a centre where there is an export zone with tax incentives.

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