ROOLA stands for Road/Railway, Oil pipeline, Oil Refinery, Lamu Port and airport. ROOLA is meant to establish another transport corridor that links Kenya to her northern neigbours to boost trade in the region. With the return of peace southern Sudan, Kenya seeks to establish a link from Ethiopia and southern Sudan to its Coast to exploit the huge economic potential in the region.

The new transport corridor will comprise a new port at Lamu, a railway line, highway, an airport, oil refinery and oil pipeline linking the proposed port to Southern Sudan and Ethiopia. A paper has been developed on the project. ROOLA proposes to implement it as a build, own, operate and transfer basis at an estimated cost of between $15 billion and $20 billion (Sh1.2 trillion to Sh1.6 trillion) for 20 to 30 years