Construction of 3 berths to begin next month

Last Updated 13 years ago by Kenya Engineer

Three berths under the Lamu Port – South Sudan – Ethiopia Transport Corridor Project (Lapsset) are set to start construction in February this year. The president is expected to lay the foundation stone for the project to mark start of construction of three of the 32 berths under the Sh1.5 trillion project.

The Sh2 billion three berths will serve general cargo, bulk cargo and container cargo. The designs were completed last year and a Chinese  firm is reported to have been awarded the tender.

The Lapsset corridor will create the Great Equatorial Land Bridge, connecting East and West coast of Africa. It will also see to the development of Kenya’s 2nd Transport & Economic Corridor which will in turn reduce over-reliance on the only Corridor-Northern Corridor.

The project components comprise:-Lamu Port at Manda Bay;
-railway line from Lamu to Isiolo, Isiolo to South Sudan, and Isiolo to Ethiopia;
-airports at Isiolo, Lamu and Lake Turkana/Lokichoggio;highway from Lamu to Isiolo, Isiolo to South Sudan, and Isiolo to Ethiopia;
resort Cities at Lamu, Isiolo and Lake Turkana;
-oil Refinery at Lamu; and
-oil Pipeline from Lamu to Isiolo, Isiolo to South Sudan, and Isiolo to Ethiopia.

The high Capacity high speed standard gauge railway of total length 4,200 Kilometers will have a transit time of three days with a route capacity 20 Million TEUs Per Annum.The standard gauge railway line will run from Lamu to South Sudan, Ethiopia and onwards to Douala in Cameroon to form the Great Equatorial Land Bridge between the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
The pipeline totals up to 3,240km.