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President Uhuru Kenyatta expected to commission Lamu port

A Barge carrying two Rubber Tyred Gantley cranes under Kenya Revenue Authority mobile scanner spotted at the Likoni Ferry Channel on Monday, 17May, 2021, while leaving the port of Mombasa to the port of Lamu. President Uhuru Kenyatta will commission the new Lamu Port on 20 May, 2021. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

It is all systems go as President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to commission the first three berths of Lamu Port.

The berths were built at a cost of about Sh40 billion and the port is billed as a catalyst to the growth of the country's blue economy.

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