Kenya invited tenders Monday for the building of phase one of a new port in the coastal town of Lamu, which is part of a huge infrastructure project to link the port with Ethiopia and south Sudan.
The first phase will see the construction of three berths to accommodate 100,000 dwt (deadweight tonnes) container ships, 30,000-dwt general cargo ships and 100,000-dwt bulk cargo carriers, according to a newspaper advertisement.
Other infrastructure will include access roads, railway sidings, warehouses and other buldings at Lamu's Manda Bay.
China is to help finance the construction of the port set to become Kenya's second along the Indian Ocean coast after Mombasa.
The development of the new port is part of massive project which includes a transport corridor traversing eastern Kenya and to neighbouring Ethiopia and south Sudan.
The road could provide a route to export Chinese oil from southern Sudan, which is to vote in a referendum in January whether to secede or remain part of Sudan.
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