Kenya's ailing Mombasa port will undergo a radical overhaul to ensure its status as the shipping hub of East Africa, the new managing director of Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) said. Joseph Munene said he was aware that he had been given one of the toughest jobs in the country -- turning around a port almost destroyed by corruption and inefficiency. "My biggest challenge is to make the port profitable and to improve cash flows," he said. The appointment of Munene and new KPA chairman Jonathan Mturi, part of a private sector team drafted in to take over Kenya's parastatals by civil service head Richard Leakey, was welcomed by Kenyan industry.