After four years of negotiations with landowners, construction of the first phase of the $3.1-billion berths project in Kenya’s coastal town of Lamu is back on track. The new berths will be part of a $24.5-billion, seven-component Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopian Transport (Lapsset) corridor project, the largest ever in eastern Africa.
The building of the 32 berths, which is now slated to start in September, will help link Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia with the rest of the African continent.