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Lamu Port’s first berth to be commissioned in October
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KENYA Ports Authority (KPA) announced this week that the rst berth at Lamu Port would be commissioned in October, following its comple- tion earlier this month.
KPA said that the rst vessel was due to dock at the port of Lamu on October 20, adding that it would o er attractive promotional tari s to attract shippers to use the facility.
Once complete, Lamu will have 22 berths and will be the largest deep-sea port in East Africa, o ering the region’s highest rates of tranship- ment. The berths will each have a 400-metre quay and a depth of 17.5-18 metres, with the 22 covering 6km of coastline.
e project is part of the highly ambitious Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor development, which is estimated to cost just under $20bn and comprises a refined fuel pipeline, a crude oil
pipeline, a sea port, roads, airports, a railway and resort cities. in early August, Downstream MEA (DMEA) learnt that the rst three berths at Lamu were budgeted to cost a total of $480mn, e second and third berths are due to be com- pleted in early 2020. e announcement, which was published by KPA manager director Daniel Manduku, said that the rst berth “will be used as a multi-purpose berth and will be capable of handling any kind of vessels, especially the self-sustaining vessels.”
it added: “KPA has put in place plans to install three ship-to-shore (STS) gantries by the time the remaining two berths are ready for operation in October 2020.”
e promotional tari notice stipulates that from October 1, shipping rms and agents will be o ered free storage for a 30-day period for transhipment and transit cargo.™
Delayed Iraqi oil cargoes to begin arriving in Jordan
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JORDAN’S Energy Minister Hala Zawati announced this week that oil cargoes from iraq would soon begin arriving in the Hashemite kingdom following delays.
Zawati was quoted by Ammon as saying that all of the necessary procedures to allow for deliveries to begin were “in their nal stages” and added that cargoes would begin arriving “soon” without providing a speci c start date.
Jordanian rm Burj Al Hayat Transport and Trading won a tender from Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resoures (MEMR) to move a total of 500,000 tonnes (3.67mn barrels) of crude by road tanker from Baiji in central iraq, with cargoes of 10,000 barrels arriving daily.
in July, Jordan Times quoted Burj Al Hayat owner Nael iabat as saying that all of the nan- cial and technical elements of the deal had been concluded, with 600 visas having been obtained for the 300 Jordanian and 300 iraqi drivers that will be ferrying the cargoes. iabat added that more would be applied for in the future.
MEMR oated the crude transport tender in March following the signing of a memorandum
of understanding (MoU) between Zawati and iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy and Minister of Oil amir Ghadhban in Amman and Baghdad in February.
e bilateral deal stipulated that the ows would cover around 7% of Jordan’s current demand, buying the oil at a $16 per barrel dis- count to Brent in order to cover the transport and deviation in speci cations. in return, iraqi goods exported through the port of Aqaba will receive preferential rates.
e leaders also agreed that Jordan would begin supplying electricity to its neighbour, which lacks su cient power generation capacity to meet fast-growing domestic demand, “within two years”.
Preliminary work to develop the 1mn barrel per day, $5bn Basra-Aqaba pipeline is thought to be imminent, with iraqi Ministry of Oil (MoO) spokesperson Assem Jihad saying in July that “investment o ers from international compa- nies” were under evaluation on the basis of estab- lishing “the pipeline in return for a percentage that will be deducted for each exported barrel”.™
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