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The Lamu Port Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project aka the Lamu corridor is a transport and infrastructure project in Kenya that, when complete, will be the country's second transport corridor. Kenya's other transport corridor is the Mombasa port and Mombasa–Uganda transport corridor that passes through Nairobi and much of the Northern Rift. ==Background== The project will involve the following components:〔()〕 * A port at Manda Bay, Lamu * Standard gauge railway line to Juba and Addis Ababa, the South Sudanese and Ethiopian capitals * Road network * Oil pipelines (Southern Sudan and Ethiopia) * Oil refinery at Bargoni * Three airports * Three resort cities (Lamu, Isiolo and Lake Turkana shores) The project was initially conceived in 1975 but never took off due to various reasons. The project was later revived and included in Kenya's Vision 2030. In 2009, the cost of LAPSSET was estimated as $16 billion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kenya: Lamu's U.S.$16 Billion Makeover )〕 Recent estimates arrived after studies now put the cost of the project at between US$22 billion and US$23 billion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kenya poised to roll out ambitious Sh2 trillion transport corridor project – News )〕 On 1 April 2013, Kenya's government announced the setting up of a government agency, the Lamu Port Southern Sudan Transport Development Authority that will manage the project on behalf of the Kenyan government. The cost of the project was also put at KSh. 2.5 trillion ($29.24 billion). The timeline of the project is not clear, including when it started and when it should be finished. Some projects like the Isiolo-Merille projects began in 2007. At the peak of the project, between 2013 and 2018, it is expected that the Kenyan government will be spending about 6% of the country's Gross Domestic Product or 16% of its annual budget on the project. The project is in turn expected to contribute an additional 3% increase in Kenya's GDP by 2020.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kenya poised to roll out ambitious Sh2 trillion transport corridor project – News )〕 The aim of the project is to cut over-dependence on Kenya's main port of Mombasa as well as open up Kenya's largely under-developed northern frontier, through creation of a second transport corridor. Key towns in the project are Lamu and Isiolo in Kenya, Juba in Southern Sudan and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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