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Inaugurated in Kenya the work for the construction of the new port of Lamu
According to the forecasts, the port of call will be realized in five years with an investment of about 3,5 billion dollars
March 5, 2012
Past friday the president of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, the president of the South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, has inaugurated the start of the work of construction of the new port of Lamu ( on 14 September 2010). The harbour work takes part of the project Lamu Port and Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (Lapsset), according to trasportistico corridor of the Kenya that will be realized with a total investment of about 22-23 billion dollars and that it includes the important construction infrastructural works between which a refinery and an oil pipe-line, three airport ports of call, a highway artery and railway and residential centers along the corridor that will connect Lamu with the South Sudan and Ethiopia.
According to the forecasts, the new port will be realized in five years with an investment of about 3,5 billion dollars. The landing place will have a depth of the -18 backdrop meters and will be able to receive portacontainer super post-Panamax.
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Past friday the president of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, the president of the South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, has inaugurated the start of the work of construction of the new port of Lamu 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
