Tanzania, Uganda lose out to French firm Bolloré in crude oil pipeline

Bollore Transport and Logistics management with journalists at the Port of Mombasa during the flagging off of a full freight Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) train to Nairobi Container Terminal at Embakasi on March 29, 2018. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NMG

What you need to know:

  • With construction of the pipeline expected to start from Tanzania, the steel pipe will be imported into the country and transported to a coating plant in Nzega District, where it will receive a thermal insulation coating
  • The MCL contract scope includes end-to-end receiving, storage, handling and transportation of hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of cargo, including more than 80,000 joints of 18-metre line-pipe, multiple heavy-lift operations and significant break-bulk and containerised cargo transportation.