Operations test at new Lamu port starts next month
Thursday April 29 2021
Police officers patrol at the Lamu Port following the arrival of the first batch of equipment on April 28, 2021. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NMG
By ANTHONY KITIMO
Officials will start testing operations of the new Lamu port at the end of next month ahead of the June 15 commissioning.
The first batch of equipment including low load trailers, extension cargo handlers and trailers to be used at the multibillion-shilling facility arrived at the port on Wednesday.
The second batch including rubber tyred gantries, forklift and utility vans are expected by mid-next month.
Lapsset project works still on, nine years later
Thursday April 22 2021
Workers at work at the new Lamu Port-South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor site in Kililana in Lamu West. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Summary
Lapsset director-general Maina Kiondo says the environmental social impact assessment report on the project is undergoing public participation.
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As the region looks forward to the commencement of works on proposed joint Uganda, Tanzania East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), Kenya’s $1.5 billion Lokichar to Lamu Crude Oil Pipeline under the Lamu Port-South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor (Lapsset) project has been in the works since 2012.
According to Maina Kiondo, the director general of Lapsset, it is work in progress and currently, the environmental social impact assessment report on the project is undergoing public participation.
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