Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has told her Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni that works for an East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project were on track to finish in five months.
President Museveni is on an official working visit on the invitation of Tanzania’s first female leader.
In a meeting between the two leaders in Dar es Salaam over the weekend President Hassan said the transportation of crude oil will begin as early as July of this year.
The pipeline project worth $5 billion will facilitate oil exports from landlocked Uganda through the Tanga port in Tanzania.
Presidents Hassan and Museveni hailed the project as the benchmark model of fruitful bilateral relations between Tanzania and Uganda, two countries bound together by history, georgraphy and culture.
Their meeting focussed on trade, infrastructure, regional peace, establishing rail links, building natural gas and petroleum pipelines, and eliminating trade barriers between the two countries.
