Tororo Inland Port

Tororo Inland Port is a dry port in inland Uganda.

Tororo Inland Port
Location
CountryUganda
LocationMalaba
Coordinates0.6500°N 34.2500°E / 0.6500; 34.2500
Details
Owned byGreat Lakes Ports Ltd

Location

The inland port is located on 250 acres (100 ha) in the town of Malaba, Uganda, close to the border with Kenya. This location is approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi), by road, east of the town of Tororo, on the Tororo-Eldoret Highway.[1] The approximate coordinates of the inland port are:00 39 00N, 34 15 00E (Latitude:0.6500; Longitude:34.2500). The coordinates are approximate, because the port does not yet show up on most publicly available maps, as of November 2010.

Overview

Tororo Inland Port is a dry inland port under construction by Great Lakes Ports Limited of Kenya, who own the port and will operate it when completed. The port will serve as a storage area for containers of imports destined for Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Southern Sudan and Eastern DRC. The port will replace the ten or so storage facilities used by Uganda, to store these containers prior to the clearance of customs and other importation procedures. It is expected that this will greatly decongest the port at Kilindini, Mombasa, on the Indian Ocean, and cut down the time it takes for a container on a ship in Mombasa to arrive in Tororo, from 18 days to only five.[2]

History

Construction of the inland port was commissioned in June 2010 by Yoweri Museveni, the President of Uganda.[3] The port is expected to be ready to commence business in November 2012. Construction is expected to cost US$120 million.[2] [4][5]

See also

References
  1. "Distance between Tororo (Tororo) and Malaba (Western Province) (Uganda)". distancecalculator.globefeed.com.
  2. "Tororo dry port to begin operations by 2012". The East African. 1 November 2010.
  3. Kasita, Ibrahim (25 June 2010). "Uganda: Power Cuts to Go, Says Museveni" – via AllAfrica.
  4. "Big money, self-interest mar Tororo Inland Port". Independent. 25 March 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  5. "Inland Port for Tororo". Railways Africa. 15 March 2007.


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