Oil dealers now prefer Dar es Salaam to Mombasa port

Oil tankers parked outside the Port of Mombasa. Uganda is in talks with Kenya over dwindling fuel supply. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NMG

The $60 tariff per 1,000 litres on transported fuel through Kenya Pipeline is costing Kenya revenue as landlocked countries turn to Tanzania’s Central Corridor.

The value of Kenyan petroleum exports have dropped 43 per cent from Ksh2.1 billion ($21 million) in the first six months of 2018 to Ksh1.2 billion ($12 million) in the first half of the year.