Uganda to End Monopoly on Kenyan Route for Oil

[John Ashworth]

Uganda Moves to End Monopoly on Kenyan Route for Oil Shipments

Last week, Uganda Railways Corp. began a trial delivery of 500,000 liters of petroleum products across Lake Victoria, resuming shipments after a 16-year break, acting Managing Director Stephen Wakasenza said Tuesday by phone from the capital, Kampala. The fuel initially landed in Dar es Salaam and was transported by train to Mwanza port and onward to Uganda over the world’s second-largest fresh-water lake.

“We are comfortable with Mombasa, but as a country we need an alternative route for strategic reasons,” Wakasenza said. “We are targeting oil because it is a product used daily”...