Had the Kenya Pipeline Company officers not retested the cargo, chances are that a huge amount of substandard cargo would have landed into the country. Had the Kenya Pipeline Company officers not retested the cargo, chances are that a huge amount of substandard cargo would have landed into the country. Had that been done, according to insiders, the prices of fuel would have gone up in order to accommodate the cargo. It was the first time that on oil tanker with substandard cargo had been turned away from Kipevu. “We have a technical clause on the tolerable temperature in the Transport and Storage Agreement (TSA) with oil marketers but this was conveniently ignored,” said an insider.

Source: Daily Nation April 14, 2020 06:00 UTC