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Road traffic forces drivers to spend hours in close proximity while waiting for clearance to cross the border, he explained. As a result, the rate of infection among drivers using this route has been climbing, he noted.
Conditions will be safer for traders that opt to use the port’s rail and barge infrastructure to move fuel out of KPC’s Kisumu terminal in tankers, Odero asserted. “There will be limited contact and interaction between sailors and crew members operating the vessels, as they will remain in the tanker and allow the Ugandan staff to drive locomotives and the products,” he was quoted as saying by The Monitor.
Crew members working in the port will be tested regularly for COVID-19, he added.
According to Odero, traders using the port of Kisumu will be able to use several different vessels to ship fuel across Lake Victoria. They can secure access to a tug vessel, MT Harambee, or one of two tank barges, Tanker I and Tanker II, he explained. The tank barges were built locally, at the Kisumu Marine Yard, and are fully
certified to carry petroleum products, he said. He went on to say that Kisumu’s facilities were “now in total readiness and on standby to start operations from [the] KPC Kisumu depot to Uganda.” KPC conducted a dry-run test of this route last year, as well as a wet-run test that involved the transport of petroleum products from Kisumu to the Ugandan port of Jinja, he
said. ™
The Kisumu terminal includes a jetty for marine shipments (Photo: KPC)
REGIONAL
FRANCE’S Total has given up plans to acquire assets in Ghana and Algeria from Occidental Petroleum, the US company that bought out Anadarko Petroleum last year.
Total and Occidental had struck a purchase and sales agreement (PSA) last year that pro- vided for the former company to purchase Ana- darko’s African assets, including stakes in licence areas in Mozambique and South Africa, as well as in Algeria and Ghana. Under that agreement,
the French major had already assumed control of Anadarko’s shares in a Mozambican LNG project and a South African block. But it had not yet completed negotiations on the Algerian and Ghanaian sites.
On May 18, Total confirmed that it was aban- doning attempts to do so. In a statement, it said it did not intend to pursue the acquisition of Ana- darko’s assets in either Algeria or Ghana in line with the terms of the PSA.
INVESTMENT
Total abandons plan to acquire Anadarko assets in Ghana, Algeria
Total was eyeing Anadarko’s stakes in TEN and Jubilee offshore Ghana (Image: Anadarko Petroleum)
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