发布于：Wednesday , 21st April 2021

Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) have signed a major deal of 17.9 billion shillings (about 166 million U.S. dollars) with a Chinese Construction firm. The partnership is to construct a 453-km road that is part of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) corridor project.

The road construction encompasses of 257-km Lamu-Ijara-Garissa section which is part of the LAPSSET project in addition to the Hindi-Bodhei-Basuba-Kiunga section which covers around 113 km and the Ijara-Sangailu-Hulugho section which extends 83 km.

Director General of KeNHA, Peter Mundinia, mentioned in a statement that the tender award agreement is for stage construction of the LAPSSET development project and related spur roads in the country’s southeast region.

The LAPSSET has 7 main components that consist of construction of the Lamu Port at the Manda Bay, construction of railway line from Lamu to Isiolo (northern Kenya), Isiolo to South Sudan, and Isiolo to Ethiopia; construction of airports at Isiolo, Lamu and Lake Turkana and construction of highway from Lamu to Isiolo, Isiolo to South Sudan, and Isiolo to Ethiopia.

其他工作包括在拉穆、伊西奥洛和图尔卡纳湖建设度假城市；在拉穆建造一座炼油厂；以及从拉穆到伊西奥洛、伊西奥洛到南苏丹和伊西奥洛到埃塞俄比亚的输油管道的建设。

The project is anticipated to endorse regional socio-economic improvement along the transport corridor, especially in the Northern, Eastern, North-Eastern and Coastal parts of Kenya, areas which are considered as economically marginalized.