Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), Saturday, dispatched two new giant Rubber Tyred Gantries (RTG) cranes and scanners to Lamu Port ahead of its operationalisation next week. The newly built Port of Lamu code-named Lamu South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) corridor will receive its maiden cargo vessel on May 20, 2021 when operations officially kick off at […]
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Lamu port officials have reiterated that at least 100 Lamu residents will be employed with the initial operationalization of the Lamu Port in June this year. Kenya Ports Authority Head of Corporate Affairs Mr Bernard Osero stated that the earmarked youth are set to start training in Mombasa to give them skills that they will […]
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Lamu port is set to begin clearing Ethiopian cargo by 15 June this year, according to multi agency team steering the project. Speaking after an inter-agency meeting in Garissa, LAPSSET chairperson Maj Gen (Rtd) Titus Ibui, said following the meeting between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopia Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed late last year […]
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The Rehabilitation works of the 240-kilometre old Nairobi-Nanyuki railway line has commenced in Laikipia with the goal of spurring economic growth in Central Kenya. The Sh.3 billion rehabilitation works of the metre-gauge railway line expected to be completed in five months are being undertaken by Kenya Railways Corporation which has already injected Sh.1 billion while […]
Continue ReadingJitters are rising among Lamu residents over the prospect that the county could lose a large chunk of its traditional fishing grounds because of the Kenya-Somalia maritime territorial dispute. Lamu County holds the Kenyan border point to Somalia to the Indian Ocean Republic in Kenya’s South. The disputed waters is a triangular patch created by […]
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