Ethiopia is set to build an office in Lamu to reduce reliance on Port of Djibouti

MK254 · May 8, 2018

PRESIDENT UHURU KENYATTA (LEFT) WITH FIRST LADY MARGARET KENYATTA, ETHIOPIA'S PRIME MINISTER ABIY AHMED ALI AND DEPUTY PRESIDENT WILLIAM RUTO AT STATE HOUSE, NAIROBI. PHOTO | PSCU

Landlocked Ethiopia is set to build an office in Lamu, giving the clearest indication yet of its intention to shift some of its logistics undertakings to the Kenyan coast.

The Kenyan government has committed to set aside some land to enable Ethiopia set up the logistics facility.

“The Kenyan side will facilitate the formal acquisition of land in Lamu Port given to the Ethiopian government,” states a joint communique issued after bilateral talks between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali on Monday.

“The Ethiopian side reiterated its commitment to develop the land for logistics facilitation.”

At the moment, Ethiopia has mainly relies on the Port of Djibouti for sea link to the rest of the world after the 1992 independence of Eritrea cut its Red Sea connection and rendered it landlocked.

Unlike Kenya whose territorial Indian Ocean waters cover about 128,015 square kilometres but does not have a single merchant ship, Ethiopia has more than a dozen state-run seagoing vessels.

Its drive to shift part of its sea-based transport to Kenya implies that a corridor running from Addis Ababa to Lamu must equally be developed urgently. That will allow its traders to move exports to Lamu and ship imports back by trucks and trains.

On Monday, the two leaders committed to the development of Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport corridor (Lapsset) including road network between Isiolo, Moyale through to Addis Ababa as well as the railway from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.

“Both sides agreed to jointly supervise and inspect the Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo-Moyale and Moyale-Hawassa-Addis Ababa road networks,” states the communique.

The leaders committed to expand the border town of Moyale into a joint city to boost socio-economic integration. The Joint Moyale City will host a special economic zone, the two leaders said.
Ethiopia gets Lamu land to cut reliance on Port of Djibouti

mwaswast · May 9, 2018

Habari za kuhuzunisha wabongolala Geza Ulole, mulisaaa , MOTOCHINI , Mwanzi 1 , kilam , @Reedemer

Geza Ulole · May 9, 2018

mwaswast said:
Habari za kuhuzunisha wabongolala Geza Ulole, mulisaaa , MOTOCHINI , Mwanzi 1 , kilam , @Reedemer

set to build no agreement signed!

thisdayes · May 9, 2018

Geza Ulole said:
set to build no agreement signed!

Mtu ana chezwa

KichwaNgumu254 · May 9, 2018

Wako wapi wale wa Bagamoyo!? 😀😀

Lamu is gradually taking shape!

kilam · May 9, 2018

mwaswast said:
Habari za kuhuzunisha wabongolala Geza Ulole, mulisaaa , MOTOCHINI , Mwanzi 1 , kilam , @Reedemer

Debe tupu hilo, wapi tram Nairobi?

Light train project to be launched in June

Tony254 · May 9, 2018

MK254 said:
PRESIDENT UHURU KENYATTA (LEFT) WITH FIRST LADY MARGARET KENYATTA, ETHIOPIA'S PRIME MINISTER ABIY AHMED ALI AND DEPUTY PRESIDENT WILLIAM RUTO AT STATE HOUSE, NAIROBI. PHOTO | PSCU

Landlocked Ethiopia is set to build an office in Lamu, giving the clearest indication yet of its intention to shift some of its logistics undertakings to the Kenyan coast.

The Kenyan government has committed to set aside some land to enable Ethiopia set up the logistics facility.

“The Kenyan side will facilitate the formal acquisition of land in Lamu Port given to the Ethiopian government,” states a joint communique issued after bilateral talks between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali on Monday.

“The Ethiopian side reiterated its commitment to develop the land for logistics facilitation.”

At the moment, Ethiopia has mainly relies on the Port of Djibouti for sea link to the rest of the world after the 1992 independence of Eritrea cut its Red Sea connection and rendered it landlocked.

Unlike Kenya whose territorial Indian Ocean waters cover about 128,015 square kilometres but does not have a single merchant ship, Ethiopia has more than a dozen state-run seagoing vessels.

Its drive to shift part of its sea-based transport to Kenya implies that a corridor running from Addis Ababa to Lamu must equally be developed urgently. That will allow its traders to move exports to Lamu and ship imports back by trucks and trains.

On Monday, the two leaders committed to the development of Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport corridor (Lapsset) including road network between Isiolo, Moyale through to Addis Ababa as well as the railway from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.

“Both sides agreed to jointly supervise and inspect the Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo-Moyale and Moyale-Hawassa-Addis Ababa road networks,” states the communique.

The leaders committed to expand the border town of Moyale into a joint city to boost socio-economic integration. The Joint Moyale City will host a special economic zone, the two leaders said.
Ethiopia gets Lamu land to cut reliance on Port of Djibouti

Lapsset is dead.Hivyo ndio wengine walikuwa wakipayuka

Mwanzi1 · May 9, 2018

Where is commitment? Halafu you can see how Kenya is pushing this rather than Ethiopian themselves. Eritrea is coming to eat kenya's lunch.

Engineer levi Devin · May 9, 2018

Slowly by slowly we will get there.

NairobiWalker · May 9, 2018

Wacha wenye povu waje humu.😀😀😀

mwaswast · May 9, 2018

kilam said:
Debe tupu hilo, wapi tram Nairobi?

Light train project to be launched in June

Wapi Bagamoyo, pipeline, SGR na viwanda?

Kafrican · May 9, 2018

Tz walishajenga viwanda elfu tatu!!! Utawaambia nini

pingli-nywee · May 9, 2018

Kafrican said:
Tz walishajenga viwanda elfu tatu!!! Utawaambia nini

Eti hata kibubu, kile ambacho mabaniani huwa wanatia coins ndani, lazima ukisajili pia kama kiwanda. 😀😀😀 Eti kwasababu kinazalishaga coins! [emoji38]

ndughuri msuya · May 10, 2018

MK254 said:
PRESIDENT UHURU KENYATTA (LEFT) WITH FIRST LADY MARGARET KENYATTA, ETHIOPIA'S PRIME MINISTER ABIY AHMED ALI AND DEPUTY PRESIDENT WILLIAM RUTO AT STATE HOUSE, NAIROBI. PHOTO | PSCU

Landlocked Ethiopia is set to build an office in Lamu, giving the clearest indication yet of its intention to shift some of its logistics undertakings to the Kenyan coast.

The Kenyan government has committed to set aside some land to enable Ethiopia set up the logistics facility.

“The Kenyan side will facilitate the formal acquisition of land in Lamu Port given to the Ethiopian government,” states a joint communique issued after bilateral talks between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali on Monday.

“The Ethiopian side reiterated its commitment to develop the land for logistics facilitation.”

At the moment, Ethiopia has mainly relies on the Port of Djibouti for sea link to the rest of the world after the 1992 independence of Eritrea cut its Red Sea connection and rendered it landlocked.

Unlike Kenya whose territorial Indian Ocean waters cover about 128,015 square kilometres but does not have a single merchant ship, Ethiopia has more than a dozen state-run seagoing vessels.

Its drive to shift part of its sea-based transport to Kenya implies that a corridor running from Addis Ababa to Lamu must equally be developed urgently. That will allow its traders to move exports to Lamu and ship imports back by trucks and trains.

On Monday, the two leaders committed to the development of Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport corridor (Lapsset) including road network between Isiolo, Moyale through to Addis Ababa as well as the railway from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.

“Both sides agreed to jointly supervise and inspect the Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo-Moyale and Moyale-Hawassa-Addis Ababa road networks,” states the communique.

The leaders committed to expand the border town of Moyale into a joint city to boost socio-economic integration. The Joint Moyale City will host a special economic zone, the two leaders said.
Ethiopia gets Lamu land to cut reliance on Port of Djibouti

Naona kama Tembo mweupe mtarajiwa.

NairobiWalker · May 10, 2018

ndughuri msuya said:
Naona kama Tembo mweupe mtarajiwa.

Maneno ya mkosaji.

JokaKuu · May 10, 2018

Mwanzi1 said:
Where is commitment? Halafu you can see how Kenya is pushing this rather than Ethiopian themselves. Eritrea is coming to eat kenya's lunch.

..Magu si alisema Ethiopia watatumia bandari ya Dsm.

..Na sisi tutapeleka waalimu kuwafundisha Wahabeshi Kiswahili.

Mwanzi1 · May 10, 2018

JokaKuu said:
..Magu si alisema Ethiopia watatumia bandari ya Dsm.

..Na sisi tutapeleka waalimu kuwafundisha Wahabeshi Kiswahili.

Bandari ya Lamu imejengwa mahususi kwa Ethiopia na South Sudan. Wakenya wanalazimisha huu mchezo kitu ambacho sio kipaumbele kwa Ethiopia. Wao wana njia zingine myingi za bandari kuanzia Sudan mpaka Dar.

Alichosema Magu ni kweli, pamoja na kuwafundisha marubani na wafanyakazi wa shirika la ndege la Tanzania. Mkataba huo upo, na umesha anza kufanya kazi.

JokaKuu · May 10, 2018

Mwanzi1 said:
Bandari ya Lamu imejengwa mahususi kwa Ethiopia na South Sudan. Wakenya wanalazimisha huu mchezo kitu ambacho sio kipaumbele kwa Ethiopia. Wao wana njia zingine myingi za bandari kuanzia Sudan mpaka Dar.

Alichosema Magu ni kweli, pamoja na kuwafundisha marubani na wafanyakazi wa shirika la ndege la Tanzania. Mkataba huo upo, na umesha anza kufanya kazi.

..kama Ethiopia watatumia bandari ya Dsm, according to Magufuli, na unaamini habari hizo, kwanini inakuwia vigumu kuamini kuwa watatumia pia bandari ya Lamu?

Mwanzi1 · May 10, 2018

JokaKuu said:
..kama Ethiopia watatumia bandari ya Dsm, according to Magufuli, na unaamini habari hizo, kwanini inakuwia vigumu kuamini kuwa watatumia pia bandari ya Lamu?

Cha kuangalia ni faida gani watapata kupitia DSM vs kupitia Lamu. Reli ya Dar ikikamilika itapita maeneo mengi mpaka kufika Ethiopia, kuanza Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, DRC, South Sudan mpaka Ethiopia, huko kote ni masoko. Lamu ni njia moja tu mpaka Ethiopia hakuna masoko ya maana hapo katikati. Mimi sijasema kama hawatatulia Lamu, ukirudi nyuma utaona nmesema Kenya ndio inasukuma huu miradi wakati Ethiopia wana njia nyingi tena rahisi kama wakitaka kufikia bahari. Kuanzia Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Lamu kwenywe mpaka Dar. Lakini Dar inawapa urahisi wa kufika nchi za maziwa makuu na kuuza bidhaa zao kuliko kama walibaki Lamu na djibouti.

TheStark · May 10, 2018

Mwanzi1 said:
Cha kuangalia ni faida gani watapata kupitia DSM vs kupitia Lamu. Reli ya Dar ikikamilika itapita maeneo mengi mpaka kufika Ethiopia, kuanza Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, DRC, South Sudan mpaka Ethiopia, huko kote ni masoko. Lamu ni njia moja tu mpaka Ethiopia hakuna masoko ya maana hapo katikati. Mimi sijasema kama hawatatulia Lamu, ukirudi nyuma utaona nmesema Kenya ndio inasukuma huu miradi wakati Ethiopia wana njia nyingi tena rahisi kama wakitaka kufikia bahari. Kuanzia Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Lamu kwenywe mpaka Dar. Lakini Dar inawapa urahisi wa kufika nchi za maziwa makuu na kuuza bidhaa zao kuliko kama walibaki Lamu na djibouti.

You have a simplistic way of looking at issues but we can always try. Well, Lamu port is to help open the north of kenya and also relieve any strain on msa port. Think about cargo growth in the next ten years. It will also be used for oil exports so if worry more about your country not others..

Ethiopia is set to build an office in Lamu to reduce reliance on Port of Djibouti

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