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Port Bell

Port Bell is a small industrial centre near Kampala

Kampala

Kampala is the capital city of Uganda. With a population of 1,208,544 it is the largest city in Uganda. It is coterminous with the Kampala . The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Central, Kawempe, Makindye, Nakawa and Rubaga....
in Uganda

Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
which has a rail link and a rail/road ferry

Ferry

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, used to carry passengers and their vehicles across a body of water. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars....
wharf

Wharf

A wharf is a landing place or pier where ships may tie up and load or unload.A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pile. They often serve as interim storage areas with warehouses, since the typical objective is to unload and reload vessels as quickly as possible....
used for international traffic across Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza is one of the Great Lakes of Africa.Lake Victoria is 68,800 square kilometres in size, making it the continent's largest lake, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second widest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area ....
to Tanzania

Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
and Kenya

Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
. It is located at the end of a narrow inlet of the lake 7 miles / 11 km to the southeast of Kampala.

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The port is named after Sir Hesketh Bell, a British commissioner, who took over administration of Britain

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name and the state form of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927....
's interests in Uganda in 1906.

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Port Bell is a small industrial centre near Kampala

Kampala

Uganda

Ferry

Wharf

Lake Victoria

Tanzania

Kenya

Overview

The port is named after Sir Hesketh Bell, a British commissioner, who took over administration of Britain

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name and the state form of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927....
's interests in Uganda in 1906. Its rail link is a branch line from the Kampala-Jinja

Jinja, Uganda

Jinja is the second commercial centre in Uganda, Africa. It was established in 1907....
main line.

Lake Victoria ferries

Lake Victoria ferries

The Lake Victoria ferries are and were steam- and diesel-powered ships used for freight and passenger transport between Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya on Lake Victoria....
operate from Port Bell linking Kampala to other railhead

Railhead

A railhead is a terminus of a Rail transport line that interfaces with another transport mode, such as shipping....
ports on Lake Victoria including Jinja

Jinja, Uganda

Jinja is the second commercial centre in Uganda, Africa. It was established in 1907....
, Kisumu

Kisumu

Mwanza

Mwanza is a city in northwest Tanzania and a southern port of Lake Victoria. It is the capital of Mwanza Region and of the ethnic region Basukuma [English: Sukumaland]....
.

The Port Bell ferry wharf is visible on high-resolution Google Earth photos at latitude 0.2885° longitude 32.653°. A ferry is shown loading truck and rail coaches while another waits.

When the first stage of the Uganda Railway

Uganda Railway

The Uganda Railway is a historical railway system linking the interiors of Uganda and Kenya to the Indian Ocean at Mombasa in Kenya....
was completed in 1901, the railhead was at Kisumu

Kisumu

Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya at , with a population of 355,024 . It is the third largest city in Kenya, the principal city of western Kenya, the capital of Nyanza Province and the headquarters of Kisumu District....
, 12 hours journey from Port Bell by ship. Ferries brought goods by lake between Port Bell and Kisumu. It was not until 1931 that a branch line of the railway from Nakuru

Nakuru

Nakuru, the provincial capital of Kenya's Rift Valley Province, Kenya Subdivisions of Kenya, with roughly 300,000 inhabitants, and currently the fourth largest urban centre in the country, lies about 1850 m above sea level....
reached Kampala

Kampala

Industry

At present, Uganda Breweries has its main brewery

Brewing

Brewing is the production of alcoholic beverages and alcohol fuel through fermentation . The term is used for the production of beer, although the word "brewing" is also used to describe the fermentation process used to create wine and mead....
at Port Bell. In the 1960s one of the first instant tea

Tea

Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods....
factories was located at Port Bell as was a factory distilling waragi

Waragi

Waragi is a generic term in Uganda for domestic distilled beverages. Waragi is also given different names, depending on region of origin and/or the distillation process....
, a strong, indigenous, alcohol

Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl Functional group is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group....
ic drink.

Air travel

Before the jet

Jet engine

A jet engine is a reaction engine that discharges a fast moving jet of fluid to generate thrust in accordance with Isaac Newton Newton's laws of motion....
airline

Airline

File:Fedex-md11-N525FE-051109-21-16.jpgFile:Ryanair.b737-800.aftertakeoff.arp.jpgAn airline provides civil aviation for passengers or freight, generally with a recognized operating certificate or license....
era, Port Bell was a landing point on the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
flying boat

Flying boat

A flying boat is a specialised form of aircraft that is designed to take off from and land on water, using its fuselage as a floating Hull . Such aircraft are sometimes stabilised on water by underwing floats or by wing-like projections from the fuselage....
passenger and mail

Mail

Mail, or post, is a method for transmitting information and tangible objects, wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages, are delivered to destinations around the world....
route from Southampton

Southampton

Southampton is the largest City status in the United Kingdom in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, on the south coast of England, and is sited around 100 km south-west of London and 30 km north-west of Portsmouth....
to Durban

Durban

Durban is the third most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality . It is the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal and is famous as the busiest port in Africa....
. Port Bell linked Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum is the Capital of Sudan and of Khartoum . It is located at the confluence point of the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia....
and Kisumu

Kisumu

Port Bell

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Industry

Air travel

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