Jeezuzpick:

Oga, it has been like this for close to 30 years, so calm down.

And for the best part of that 30 years who was ruling?

becau

That's the importance of security. Shippers prefer Lagos because it is more secure.

Idiat

The charades and tirades in this nation is so annoyingly cumbersome

Odingo1:


The North that is ruling Nigeria backed by the SW prefer the extra goods to go to other West African countries than to allow it to be landing in SS; I blame GEJ for not being man enough to change all this, instead he was playing political correctness to please the North.

Have you been to Onitsha and Onne ports?or calabar and Warri ports?

toluxa1:
That's the importance of security. Shippers prefer Lagos because it is more secure.

LIAR!

potent5:

And for the best part of that 30 years who was ruling?

Different people from different parts of the country. North East, North Central, South West, South South.

14 of those years, the president was from the south.

The handiwork of this present administration. They are bent on frustrating the other States with seaports so they can control the resources. 9ja is a blessed country rich in mineral and natural, and human resources but the system is so corrupt that a one year old understands. Buari release the other seaports.

Because it's only the westerners that can be trusted. If you alow the other people the will begin to smuggle arms into our peaceful country.

Okoro pple are too lazy to develop their own region.

They're too dependent and reliant on "Afonjas" to make things happen. Do they really have to wait for the FG to spoon-feed them? Regressive folks!

God bless Yoruba.. Yoruba 4 Life!

lagos is building new ports at lekki and badagry.......akwaibom has been shouting ibaka deepsea port with no traction...okowa doesnt know what is called warri port...who is to blame

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan wasted 6 years of his administration feeding thieves in his government.

He never thought it necessary to revamp the Warri seaport, Port Harcourt seaport.

Even his native Bayelsa deserve an international seaport. But Jonathan forgot himself.

i mean it is most likely intentional because opening all the other ports take key human resource elsewhere

Throwback:



Is it Lagos state that is operating the Federal Ports in Lagos?

All water-bodering states shld hav standard seaports. Thats why trucks are parked allova lagos from tincan to onipanu, & cele ilasa

Continental shelf

Jeezuzpick:


Different people from different parts of the country. North East, North Central, South West, South South.

14 of those years, the president was from the south.

17 of those years is by the NORTH plus 20 years before that, during which the North misruled this country

theenchanter:
It always beat my imagination how Nigeria end up inflicting hardship on itself just because of "marginalization". Take it or leave it, some parts of Nigeria is being marginalized, the nation can't move forward with this set-up.

Don't tell me states govt can build their seaports when their federal allocation can only pay salaries and minor road projects.

Don't tell me they can generate revenue on their own when there's not much economic presence in the regions.

Don't tell me their citizens can pay tax to generate revenue when their people are jobless, hungry and angry.

A sensible central govt will tryna ease Lagos seaport by allowing cargoes that are eastern bound use any of the remaining ports, afterall; not all consignment are for Lagos alone, what's d point in wasting about 30days to clear goods in Lagos when the remaining ports are useless?

Nigeria is fvcked up, big time!... even Benin republic is feeding on Nigeria's carcass.

Eastern bound cargo can always use Onne sea port, which is closer to that region. It is not by force to use Lagos sea port. Let the importers do the needful.

How I wish I have the answer

erico2k2:

Have you been to Onitsha and Onne ports?or calabar and Warri ports?

I have been to Onitsha river port, nothing is happening there, I also stay in portharcourt for sometime, people import their goods from lagos which is bad.

The moment Nigeria start allowing other states to develop the better for them, you cant have only one functioning state like lagos in a big country like Nigeria and be concentrating all major infrastructural development in one state.

In Germany here major companies are giving free tax incentives for moving their companies to Eastern Germany in an effort by their FG to develop eastern germany, In South Africa international airports and seaports are built in such a way that the whole country is covered. Nobody travel from capetown to go and board a flight in Johanesbourg just to leave South Africa.

laudate:


Eastern bound cargo can always use Onne sea port, which is closer to that region. It is not by force to use Lagos sea port. Let the importers do the needful.

onne majorly deal with oil products......let the govt create enabling environment for eastern importers.

autojosh:
Nigeria and Benin Republic are competitors in the maritime business. The two West African countries are competing to be the Load Center, otherwise known as transshipment base, in West Africa.

Tragically, Contonou has remained the haven for Nigerian importers.

About 60% of all the imports to West Africa are destined to Nigeria. However, what gets to our seaports is just about 10%.

In other words, all the shipment coming to West Africa are billed for Nigeria, but at the end of the day what gets to Nigerian port directly is just about 10%.

The greater amount of cargoes are offloaded in neigbouring ports in Cotonou and other West African states and then they are transshipped to Nigeria. This is mostly because the seaports at Apapa and Tin Can are enormously overwhelmed......

Calabar Port Terminal

Meanwhile, Nigeria has 4 other sea ports that are underutilized or abandoned. The seaports are in Warri, Calabar, Koko and Port Harcourt.

Unarguably, Nigeria enjoys a large market advantage over Benin Republic because of her population, but sadly, it is Benin Republic that benefits from the large market of Nigeria.

Many countries of the world do not have such luxuries of having multiple seaports. Some are landlocked. Fortunately, Nigeria is blessed with many natural harbors and ports. Sadly, we are not taking advantage of this blessing.

Indeed, Nigeria needs deep seaports. However, if fully utilized, the abandoned and underutilized seaports in Nigeria have the capacity to significantly increase our national revenue and indeed our GDP.

So, why are the Port Harcourt, Calabar, Warri and Koko seaports underutilized?

Port Harcourt Port Terminal

Note, however, that the Intels’ Onne port in River state is Nigeria’s best run and perhaps the most active ports in the country. The Intels’ Onne seaport is a privately-run seaport within the same region as the abandoned ports.

According to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, in 2017, the cargo throughput on Nigeria seaport was highest at Onne Port.

In that year, the Onne Port had cargo throughput of 25,836,246 (while inward was 1,947,347, outward was 23,888,899).

This was followed by Apapa Port with 18,909,238 (inward was 17,523,313, while outward was 1,385,925)

Tin Can Island Port was third with 15,520,925 (inward was 14,623 and outward was 1,385,925).

Meanwhile, the other seaports – Port Harcourt, Warri, Calabar – struggled with very poor cargo throughput.

Please note that these almost comatose seaports are within the same axis as the high-performing Onne port.

So, what really is the excuse for the neglect of the seaports at Port Harcourt, Warri and Calabar?

https://autojosh.com/why-are-the-four-other-seaports-in-nigeria-abandoned/

Oga, it appears that you do not do any research before jumping on your keyboard to type long epistles.

Calabar sea port has always had a shallow draught.

Statistics shows that business activities at Calabar Port has been at its lowest ebb for over many years, due to the shallow draught of the channel that restrict access to smaller vessels and barges. This led the NPA to enter into joint venture agreements with the Calabar Channel Management Company Limited in 2014, to dredge the channel, which was originally 6 meters to 10 meters draught.

Beyond dredging, Calabar Port has a big problem, which has to do with the locating the port in a place that does not have the natural attributes of a seaport.

The port has 120 kilometres of high sea meandering channel that makes dredging difficult such that dredging this month with $100 million, in six months, NPA will need to dredge it again with same funds. This makes Calabar to lack economic viability that would encourage NPA to keep investing billions of naira generated from Ports in Lagos, to dredge the Calabar channel.

This means that it is not economically viable to get 10 metres draught in Calabar and maintain it consistently. Though, this was possible in the pre-concession era when NPA was the master stevedore in charge of cargo handling at ports, but today there are terminal operators. http://www.businessdayonline.com/transforming-calabar-port-viable-entity/

okay

theenchanter:
onne majorly deal with oil products......let the govt create enabling environment for eastern importers.

Wrong! Onne port started accepting all kinds of cargo, more than five years ago. Consign your goods to Onne, and see if they won't receive it there.... These days, there is even a concentration of exports going on at Onne. Different items from wood/timber to raw materials are exported from Onne on a daily basis. Do your research, please.

None even from east Lol

erico2k2:
A very uninformed write up.
There is no Port at koko rather Sapele.
Other Ports mentioned are functioning, He also forgot to mention the Onitsha ports, Gods are shipped to Onne port daily. The rest of the ports do work but not as busy as Lagos due to low patronage .OP you can buy 10 ship loads of goods and ship to Onitsha or Onne ports.

really?

YorubaAssasin:
Okoro pple are too lazy to develop their own region.

They're too dependent and reliant on "Afonjas" to make things happen. Do they really have to wait for the FG to spoon-feed them? Regressive folks!

God bless Yoruba.. Yoruba 4 Life!

But none of those ports are in ''Okoro people's'' land. Or are you now agreeing that SS and SE are one? See how you sore losers clutch on straw?

GEJ break my heart big-time

Adelaide2:


But none of those ports are in ''Okoro people's'' land. Or are you now agreeing that SS and SE are one? See how you sore losers clutch on straw?

Who are Okoro People?

theenchanter:
onne majorly deal with oil products......let the govt create enabling environment for eastern importers.

From what I read, the Onne port is open to everyone that wants to use it, but you will have to pay more to the shippers and also risk losing your goods to miscreants who are strangely now hailed as heroes. In a nutshell, importers prefer to use Lagos because it's cheaper to ship to Lagos; shipping and freight companies charge higher if you choose Onne as the port of destination, insurance companies also charge higher premiums too, and the reason they all cite is 'security'. Unlike the ports in Lagos which open directly to the deep sea, the ports in Rivers and Delta state are inland and ships have to meander through 30-60 km of narrow creeks (which are perceived to be dangerous) before getting to the ports. Final issue again is the depth of the Niger delta ports which prevents them from handling larger vessels.

But then again, if we are to examine the other narrative, from the typical Nigerian conspiracy theorist's lazy angle, the Ports in the Niger Delta aren't thriving because the Hausa/Fulani northerners who have ruled Nigeria for long deliberately planned to kill the economy of the eastern region; they also achieve this through the willing connivance of the Yorubas in the west who want all economic activities concentrated in their region.

Adelaide2:


But none of those ports are in ''Okoro people's'' land. Or are you now agreeing that SS and SE are one? See how you sore losers clutch on straw?

But no be you guys dey use those places and regions dey do yanga so?

Of course sensible pple around the world know ur Biafra nation isn't realistic from both economic and sustainability perspectives. There's nothing in okoro-land that can or would sustain them. They pry on the wealth of SS (in assumption that SS will dance to their balderdash tune).

So what happens to all the mediocre/supposed 'properties' owned by okoro pple nationwide? Cuz I'm pretty sure the Northerners will be willing to deport you all to Biafra should it materialize... trust me, SW won't hesitate to do the same...

The result... Since every Nigerian know okoro pple can't peacefully / happily co-exist for progression and success, "DISASTER" would be the result!