The amount of petroleum products that East African countries import using the Kenyan route went down 40 per cent. This signals the growing preference for Tanzanian route by importers from Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
The value of fuel and lubricants imported into countries like Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi through Kenya’s Northern Corridor had a value of Sh815 million over the first quarter of 2018, according to the latest data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).