Kenya plans to build three more ships to enhance the export of oil products to Uganda through Lake Victoria.
Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir said this would ensure daily trips from the current weekly voyages to the landlocked country.
Kenya has only shipped 20 million litres of petroleum products despite being launched in early January.
Chirchir, while noting that the Ksh2 billion ($14.57 million) project that was completed in February 2018 is being underutilised, said the government is on track to regain its market share of East Africa’s oil exports.
“We have embarked on building three more ships so that the jetty can be doing shipments daily,” said the cabinet secretary.
The fuel is transported to the Mahathi terminal in Entebbe where the product is loaded onto trucks to Rwanda, South Sudan, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
