New port for Uganda
Master plan and preliminary design for Bukasa Port

On the banks of Lake Victoria in Uganda, a new tri-modal port – a logistically important nodal point for goods transport in East Africa – is being built. Inros Lackner, working in cooperation with the project manager GAUFF Engineering, was appointed to plan and design the port. For the construction of this new port near Kampala, a master plan has already been developed in the first phase of the project, and a preliminary design in the second phase.

Currently, approximately 90% of all Ugandan imports enter the country via the so-called “Northern Corridor” and the Port of Mombasa in Kenya. The construction of the new port is a key element of an infrastructure project that joins the so-called “Central Corridor” across Lake Victoria to the India Ocean. This connects the Tanzanian ports of Dar Es Salaam and Tanga by land and across Lake Victoria with a shipping connection of length approximately 350 km from the ports of Musoma and Mwanza to Kampala.

In the Master Plan phase, based on the traffic projections prepared by Inros Lackner, the requirements for the port were defined and pre-dimensioned in three development stages. Further to this, the port design includes: a Roll-on/Roll-off terminal; a multi-purpose terminal for handling general cargo, bulk cargo and project cargo; a free trade zone / logistics centre; a quay for tugs, pilot boats and customs boats; and an area for administrative port entities. The other port infrastructure, including a railway marshalling yard and landside road and rail connections, has also been included in the master plan.

In the second phase of the project, a preliminary design was developed for the port. The successful completion of this design, together with an associated cost estimate and a financial and economic evaluation, created the basis for the implementation of this port construction project. Work on upgrading the approach road has already started.

^{Source: GAUFF GmbH & Co. Engineering KG www.gauff.net}