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MV Spetses Lady, a Saudi Arabian oil tanker, after it discharged 105,000 metric tonnes of diesel at the Mombasa Port. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]
Since the founding of Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) in 1923, no fuel tanker has been piloted at night into or out of Mombasa Port.
That rare feat was achieved last Saturday night when a team of sailors piloted the MV Spetses Lady out of the new Kipevu Oil Terminal (KOT) into the high seas, nine nautical miles away.
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