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Uganda to set up an oil pipeline from Bukasa, Bwerenga in Kawuku to Rwanda to save the roads from the transportation of oil products stated The Chairperson of Mahathi Infra Uganda Ltd, Steve Omenge Mainda.
In developed countries, one does not see fuel tankers on the road because they either use rail or pipelines. Uganda has the funds and ability to do this, he further stated after taking the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa into confidence while on a guided tour of the Bukasa-Bwerenga fuel terminal. He added that the project is going to be a game changer in the economy of Uganda as well as the neighbouring countries of South Sudan, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and parts of Tanzania, including Mwanza, Bukoba and Musoma.
Mahathi Infra Uganda Ltd is the Company running the fuel terminal project at Bukasa-Bwerenga Kawuku in Wakiso District. The company demonstrated what it can do and hope that after the successful completion this project the company can be given permission to set up an oil pipeline from Bukasa to Rwanda.
MT Kabaka Mutebi II, which was launched in December 2022 has been operating in the area and transports 4.5 million litres of fuel from Kisumu to the Bukasa-Bwerenga fuel terminal. The terminal has the capacity to store 70 million litres of fuel. One of the landmarks of the project is the building of the first ship (MT Kabaka Mutebi II). There are supposed to be four ships and the second one, which is nearing completion with the same capacity, will be commissioned in December this year.
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Minister Nankabirwa commended the investors’ initiative to set up fuel tanks worth 70 million litres to add to the existing 30 million litre capacity tanks in Jinja. The investor finds it commercially viable to connect from here to Rwanda by a pipeline rather than using trucks, the government supports that. The roads, which the trucks use to carry fuel keep on wearing out and we spend money on rehabilitation, not forgetting traffic jams and accidents. But such a project requires the resettlement of people, which the government will take on and ask the communities to cooperate.
