{"id":31276,"date":"2017-09-14T08:29:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T08:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=31276"},"modified":"2017-09-14T08:29:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T08:29:37","slug":"eu-to-give-shs100bn-for-port-bell-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/eu-to-give-shs100bn-for-port-bell-rehabilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to give Shs100Bn for Port bell rehabilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ritah Kemigisa\/ Edited by Judith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Union is to make a contribution of Shs 100Billion towards the rehabilitation of Port bell.<\/p>\n<p>The industrial area, which has been reduced to a ghost region, has a rail link and a railroad ferry wharf which was previously used for International traffic across Lake Victoria to Tanzania and Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The pier is now heavily silted and is covered by a dense mass of water hyacinth.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to KFM, the Head of economic growth at the EU, Cedric Merel says the contribution is meant to facilitate the country towards having a clean and greener transport system.<\/p>\n<p>He says the support made by the EU towards the rehabilitation of port bell is a flagship project to make the central corridor more accessible to ease transportation of goods from Uganda to Tanzania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ritah Kemigisa\/ Edited by Judith The European Union is to make a contribution of Shs 100Billion towards the rehabilitation of Port bell. The industrial area, which has been reduced to a ghost region, has a rail link and a railroad ferry wharf which was previously used for International traffic across Lake Victoria to Tanzania and Kenya. The pier is now heavily silted and is covered by a dense mass of water hyacinth. Speaking to KFM, the Head of economic growth at the EU, Cedric Merel says the contribution is meant to facilitate the country towards having a clean and greener transport system. He says the support made by the EU towards the rehabilitation of port bell is a flagship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":31285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}