Nairobi, Jan. 24 -- The State-owned Uganda National Oil Company (Unoc) paid the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) Sh1.2 billion in the first year of a deal in which it directly imports petroleum products to its marketers back at home through the Mombasa port.

Disclosures show that Unoc paid the money as charges for the delivery of the refined fuel that it is directly importing in a deal with Vitol Bahrain.

Unoc started directly importing fuel for Uganda from May 2024, ending decades of reliance on the commodity previously imported by Kenyan-based oil marketers.

The disclosures show that some 16 oil marketers paid KPC Sh25.32 billion in the year ended June 2015 as fees for delivery of their imported fuel via the infrastructure of KPC.

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