Kisumu

Kisumu is a port city and light industrial centre in western Kenya on Lake Victoria. The port was founded in 1901 as the main inland terminal of the Uganda Railway and named Port Florence.

Lake Victoria ferries operated from the port linking the railway to Port Bell, in Uganda and Mwanza, in Tanzania.

Before the jet airline era, Kisumu was a landing point on the British flying boat passenger and mail route from Calshot Spit, near Southampton to Cape Town. Kisumu linked Port Bell and Nairobi.