Kipevu Oil Terminal at Mombasa Port to Relocate
Company and Dredging International. Danish engineering firm Niras was in 2014 tasked with designing the new facility at a cost of $1.7 million. The jetty is expected to increase efficiency in delivery of imported refined fuel for Kenya’s domestic use and export to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. KPA also plans to more than double the capacity of its fuel terminal in Nairobi to cater for the extra flow of petroleum products when a new pipeline linking the capital with Mombasa becomes operational in the end of this year. ( (Source: Wilhelmsen Ship
World Bank to Help Fund Hydro Dams in Burundi
The World Bank has approved a $100 million grant for power-starved Burundi to help fund two hydropower projects that will almost double the east African country's tiny electricity output, the bank and government said. Like many sub-Saharan African countries, Burundi suffers a chronic power deficit and regular power outages that peg back economic growth. It even has to import energy from Democratic Republic of Congo whose own infrastructure is falling apart. Two dams will produce a combined 48 megawatts (MW) of power, tiny compared to the massive 6,000 MW dam nearby Ethiopia is building but much