According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Counselor to the Prime Minister of Kenya’s infrastructure development Sylvester Kasuke ihas informed about that during a meeting with Ukrainian Ambassador to Kenya and Tanzania Vladimir Butyagov.
S. Kasuke has also reported that currently design works and cost estimating work on reconstruction of the port of Lamu are keep going. At this stage, according to the counselor, the principal task of his office and the Ministry of Transport – to reduce the cost of operations from 35.3 million to $ 22.3 million
In addition, the parties have discussed prospects of economic relations development, in particular the possibilities of attracting of Ukrainian companies to infrastructure projects in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, Mombasa and reconstruction of the port of Lamu, modernization of the transport corridor in East Africa, in particular the railway from Mombasa – Nairobi – Uganda.
S. Kasuke noted that the Republic of Kenya is open for Ukrainian goods, is interested in economic relations developing and export of a wide range of products and services.
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Dredging Today Staff, January 24, 2012;