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Japan's Toyota Tsusho wins contract to design Uganda-Kenya crude pipeline

Kenya; Japan’s Toyota Tsusho has won a contract to design an oil export pipeline from Uganda to Kenya’s coast, a Kenyan official said yesterday, as the countries seek to start crude production.

The Uganda–Kenya Crude Oil Pipeline (UKCOP), will be constructed to transport crude oil from Uganda’s oil fields in Northern and Western Uganda to the Kenyan port of Lamu on the Indian Ocean coast.

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