Kenya seeks to regain fuel business from Dar with its new reserve in Mombasa
The Kipevu Oil Terminal at the Mombasa port. Kenya says it will dedicate freight trains to transport petroleum products to the region, especially now that the terminal can allow at least four vessels to dock at the same time. PHOTO | AFP
Kenya is banking on the $385 million new Kipevu Oil Terminal to wrest the petroleum business from Dar es Salaam port, which has been supplying the Great Lakes region.
Tanzania turned the tables on the port of Mombasa after persisted allegations of adulteration of petroleum products on the Northern Corridor. Then the three-year closure of the border between Uganda and Rwanda, and lower tariffs made both countries depend more on the Tanzanian port.
