Afrigather Nairobi — A 2,000 tones capability Marine Vessel, Pamba Wagon Ferry owned by Mango Tree Group commenced the transportation of products from the Kisumu Port to the East Africa area on Monday.
The Group’s Normal Supervisor Franck Menard says they are going to be transporting items from Kisumu Port weekly to Uganda and Tanzania.
“We’re off to Mwanza, in Tanzania, as soon as we offload we head once more to Jinja in Uganda with items,” he mentioned.
Menard says it takes in the future to journey from Kisumu Port to any vacation spot throughout the ports in EAC, noting that their companies are environment friendly.
On the launch day, they loaded ceramic merchandise, estimated to be 1,600 tones from Keda Worldwide, a producing business positioned in Miwani, Kisumu County.
Menard says they’re transporting any product starting from cement, tiles, maize, metal, plus perishable items saved in coolers.
He says the lake transport has a possible that has not been totally harnessed, noting that they are going to be compelled so as to add extra fleet of vessels if the market opens up.
“Our vessel carries numerous baggage, which may take many trailers to move whereas taking three to 4 days to ship,” he mentioned.
Talking to the press on the Kisumu Port, Menard says there’s a must shift extra cargo from roads to rail and water.
He introduced that they’re in talks with the Kenya Railways Company (KRC) to have the ability to obtain cargo that’s coming from Mombasa Port by way of rail en-route to Uganda and Tanzania.
“We are going to ship such cargo to Mwanza in Tanzania, or Port Bell and Jinja in Uganda,” he mentioned. “The route is operational and we are going to negotiate for extra enterprise to alleviate the street transport”.
Menard says if want be then they’ll rent extra vessels or construct extra to extend the capability.
“Lake Victoria is providing numerous alternatives sooner or later. We’ve made a market examine that within the subsequent 20 years the lake transport market goes to be fascinating,” he mentioned.
He says they’ve leased MV Pamba for a interval of 15 years from the Authorities of Uganda and spent a colossal amount of cash to rehabilitate it.
The vessel, which was grounded and was being run by the Ugandan Railways Company (URC) is 91 meters lengthy and is propelled by two fundamental engines that run concurrently.
