The main objective of the project is for export purpose for goods and services produced in the Pader industrial park and agribusiness. It is estimated that the project will be able to handle goods of over 50+ million tonnes per year from local production once the project is completed in the next 5 years.
The port is also more of an inter-transport model dry port that will ease movement of goods from and to Southern Sudan, link Uganda with Northern Kenya to Turkana and to Lamu port, and also link Western Uganda with the North and Southern Uganda in terms of roads, railway, oil and gas pipelines, etc.
The proposed Pader dry port is to be constructed on a 1,500-acre land in Pader in Acholi Ranches. It is an inland intermodal terminal directly connected by road or rail to Southern Sudan, Northern Uganda, and the Turkana corridor that will join to Lamu, Kampala, and Western Uganda, operating as a centre for the transshipment of cargo to inland destinations.
In addition to their role in cargo transshipment, the dry port may also include facilities for storage and consolidation of goods, maintenance for road or rail cargo carriers, and customs clearance services. The location of these facilities at a dry port relieves competition for storage and customs space at the inland port in Kampala itself.
The proposed Pader dry inland port is meant to speed the flow of cargo between ships and major land transportation networks, creating a more central distribution point. Inland ports can improve the movement of imports and exports, moving the time-consuming sorting and processing of containers inland, away from congested inland ports and seaports.
The main purpose of this project is to transform the region which has great potential in terms of mining, industries, farming, and trade, bringing development to the area through creating, designing, funding, and constructing technical inland dry port facilities and other related supporting infrastructure.
The project aims to transform the Pader Dry Port to a:
Through a strong shipping industry (standardized shipping containers) in international transport. Rather than goods being loaded and unloaded in such ports, shipping containers can just be transferred between ship and road vehicle or ship and train. The container may be transferred again between road and rail elsewhere, and the goods are only loaded or unloaded at their point of origin or final destination.
With processing and packaging industries, value addition, component manufacture, and industrial development.
Generation centre to support industries using boreholes and desalination of borehole waters and other available water sources within the area.
In terms of roads, railway lines, storage and pipeline facilities with new NCBD, hotels, housing using prefabricated technologies, modern roads on polymer technology, teaching hospital, education centers, sports complex with 40,000 people capacity to serve the East African Market Region.
The Pader Dry Port Project is submitted as a Privately Initiated Investment Proposal in accordance with the provisions of the Government of Uganda. Pader Dry Port is integrated with Vision 2035 and the Uganda Development Strategic Plan 2035.
This shall form part of an important economic industrial park to serve Northern Uganda, Kampala, and Southern Sudan that will utilize and exploit the natural resources. The planned development program includes independent power energy generation, water desalination, heavy mineral smelting industries, mining, agriculture, and fishing – opening up the hinterland and creating wealth and employment opportunities.
Muis Investments Ltd and ISG MGm-UK have already entered into a contractual arrangement to develop the Pader Dry Port, boosting trade, farming, mineral processing, and commercial development in the region.
Partners: Muis Investments Ltd, ISG MGM UK, Uganda Ministry of Transport (ports department) – Project Grantor, and Uganda Revenue Authority.
Muis Investments Limited is a concerned and caring Company devoted to contributing to the creation of wealth in Uganda at large through the implementation and execution of projects to meet the needs of the people.
We are a private company registered and licensed to operate by the URSB, Incorporated on 08.08.2016 as a company limited by shares with Offices in Gulu West, Layiba Division Wilson Lutara Road, Plot 23.