More pain at the pump as KPC bid to raise pipeline tariff gathers pace

A pump attendant fueling a car at a petrol station along Koinange street. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The proposal to increase the petroleum transport and storage tariff by the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) will result in a 21 per cent increase in the levy over the next three years, further squeezing Kenyans at the pump. 

KPC, which is being privatised in a process that the government said would be concluded by March next year, has applied for a hike in the pipeline storage and secondary storage tariff.