Ongoing construction section at the Lamu Port in Lamu County on Thursday May 6, 2021. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]The long-awaited operations at the Lamu Port will start on May 20 when the first ship is expected to dock, National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani has said. The port will have a total of 23 modern berths measuring 400 metres wide, which is almost double the size of berths in the Mombasa Port. All crucial equipment required to start port operations had been transferred to Lamu Port from Mombasa Port. The port is part of the Lamu Port South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) Corridor to link landlocked South Sudan and Ethiopia to the Indian Ocean.

Source: Standard Digital May 07, 2021 21:56 UTC