The Apapa and Tin Can seaports have become notorious for traffic gridlocks on access roads leading to these 2 major seaports in Nigeria.

The traffic gridlocks and congestion on Apapa access roads are, principally, as a result of the atrocious condition of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.

This causes trucks and tankers that visits the ports or tank farms in Apapa to spend days on the road, queuing up to carry cargoes.

As a result of this, a lot of productive man-hours are wasted on the road waiting to obtain cargoes.

However, in order to save valuable time; some companies have devised a faster mode of transporting their cargoes from the ports.

In a bid to beat traffic gridlock and hasten the process of evacuation and transportation of cargoes at the port terminals, these companies now use barges.





With this method, their trucks no longer have to wait for weeks to reach the terminal and take cargos or containers out of the port.

With the use of barges, they can transport their trucks or tankers to the terminals and back, and it takes a day to achieve this.

As the rehabilitation work on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway gets on the way, it is believed that this method of evacuating cargoes and other freight at the ports will increase significantly.







Source: https://autojosh.com/apapa-road-gridlock-see-how-companies-now-move-cargoes-from-lagos-ports-photos/


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Okay

Cool

Hmmm

THE REAWAKENING - 09027111906. Lets get you there.

It's a pity. Anything to siphon money out of the citizens.

Smart..


Now I will go and invest in a pontoon

can the barges ferry container laden trucks?

Long overdue

yenderyender:
Terrible

What is terrible about that? Isn't that a far better option?

Meanwhile, there are inactive ports in Warri, Calabar, Port Harcourt and Koko.

*sighs*

if you own a barge now, you rake in millions.

I guess this is a lecture on apapa issue... because it's not a news

It appears some people are now thinking like humans as they should.

Why wasn't this alternative implemented long before now?

So, it took us 59 years to find this 'uncommon' solution...kudos.

Common sense is indeed not common.

famouscargo4u:
if you own a barge now, you rake in millions.

I tell you.

Common sense finally

Where are the cargoes?

What happened to the other ports

Esejojo:


I tell you.

movement of containers by truck is worsened by the high bribe the transporters pay to the military men on the road. 150k for empty and as high as 450k for loaded container for export.

ok

That’s an investment apportunity

I think by the time gele gele seaport is done, all this will be in the past..

Oloyede to is not been strict or disciplined....the man was just been wicked. When he was in Unilorin, he close school fees portal whenever pleases him. I remembered when Emir of Ilorin has to left his palace to plead onbehalf of the masses, but he refused. he did the same thing when he was in Kwara Poly. Now at JAMB level....it's just a matter of time. None of their children in Nigerian

extreme measures for desperate challenges .

The national inland waterways authority needs to regulate and sanitize this new-found mode of ferrying haulage trucks before we are left with another catastrophy on our waters.