Mombasa, Kenya
Advocate Murshid Abdallah Mohammed wa Mvita, Kenya, Wafanyabiashara, makuli wapinga uwekezaji wa DP World nchini Kenya kwa sababu zifuatazo:
PRESS RELEASE OBJECTING TO GIVING KENYA´S PORTS TO UAE DP WORLD
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Nairobi, Kenya
Serikali ya Kenya yaruka kimanga, ahadi ilizotoa kwa Dubai kuhusu bandari
Kenya disowns port deal promises made to Dubai
Friday July 22 2022
DP World said the Kenyan government had promised to issue a request for a commercial proposal for the port deals before the election.
Kenya had agreed to offer preference to DP World, owned by the government of Dubai and one of the world’s largest port operators, in a deal inked between the two States.
DP World said the Kenyan government had promised to issue a request for a commercial proposal for the port deals before the August 9 General Election.
Under the deal, DP World was to deploy its money to build three berths at the Mombasa port, develop cold storage supply chains in Kisumu and Naivasha and to build a special economic zone in Lamu.
The Dubai firm was to submit a commercial proposal to equip and operate the three completed berths in Lamu.
Kenya has however disowned promises of the tender made to Dubai Port (DP) World that would have allowed the UAE-based firm to offer a bid for development, operation and management of the country’s four ports.The Treasury has disowned the existence of such a deal and denied ever mentioning plans to issue a tender by July.
It was a ‘government-to-government’ agreement signed proposing to DP world to take part in the process. It was an agreement to explore how DP World can provide gateways into the country and the hinterland. Kenya Treasury CS Ukur Yatani has denied the deal.
When requested comments on whether the request for proposal (RFP) will be issued this month, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani replied “No,” via text without offering any explanations.
Typically once an RFP is issued bidders are given weeks to fill and submit bids outlining the amount of investment required, financing options and a feasibility study which could take months.
DP World first entered the fray in Kenya in 2014 when the government floated an international competitive tender to concession the second container terminal in Mombasa. Port operators from China, Japan, Singapore, Netherlands and several other countries participated in the tender.
The Chinese group, PSA International, which had partnered with a local firm, Multiple Hauliers, had the highest marks, with DP World emerging second but was to secure the tender through backdoor like it had done in other countries before.
The process was then cancelled amid political undercurrents. The Treasury Cabinet Secretary previously confirmed that DP World were among many port operators being explored by the government as potential private partners to run the new Lamu Port