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New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by olas24u(f): 4:35pm On Apr 05, 2019
Anna Okon with agency report

Nigeria is building a new deep-seaport and considering two additional facilities to ease congestion at Apapa seaports, which currently handle about 80 per cent of all shipping traffic in the country.

A new facility is already under construction in the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos through a public-private partnership, while another may be built in the Badagry area of the city, near the border with Benin.



A third project, the Ibom seaport, is under consideration in the oil-rich Niger delta , Nigerian Ports Authority Managing Director, Hadiza Bala-Usman, disclosed in a recent interview with Bloomberg.

The government had in the past year, invested in developing the eastern ports of Warri, Calabar, Onne and Port Harcourt, whose river channels are too narrow to accommodate large vessels, forcing shipping companies to take their vessels to Lagos.

The NPA last year commenced the dredging of Warri port at the cost of $44.861m (N16.150bn).

Bala-Usman has also encouraged flat-bottomed vessels that do not require too much sea depth to berth at the eastern ports and the response has been encouraging as there was an increase in the number of such vessels calling at the Port Harcourt and Calabar ports since last year.

Bloomberg reported that the Apapa and Tin Can Island ports remained the hubs for cargo transiting through Africa’s most populous nation.

But inefficiency and congested roads to the ports mean daily queues of hundreds of trucks. The government wants to focus on improving the nearby roads and other infrastructure to ease the transportation of goods including cars, computers, food and machinery, Bala-Usman told the business newswire.

“We have congestion because 80 per cent of our cargo goes on the road. You must have that seamless evacuation, if not, it’s laughable to think you will not have congestion,” she said.

Shipment delays of almost eight weeks prompted the National Cashew Association of Nigeria to raise the alarm last month as $300m worth of nuts remained stuck in containers on trucks waiting to enter the ports.



Inadequate infrastructure, stifling red tape and corruption at the ports are hurting business, the Nigeria Cashew Exporters Association said.

Similar concerns were voiced by the nation’s cocoa exporters last year after trucks carrying the beans took as long as four weeks to get through the potholed roads to the ports, pushing up haulage costs and putting sales contracts at risk.

The Ministry of Transport is building a new railway to the Lagos ports to speed up the evacuation of cargo, Usman said.

For now, trailer parks are being built to take trucks off the road and barges have been deployed to move cargo on inland waterways. Lagos is Africa’s biggest city, with an estimated population of 22 million people.
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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by influenz: 4:38pm On Apr 05, 2019
Please tell me what to type.....
Just tired of this Lugard's almagam.

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by nabegibeg: 4:39pm On Apr 05, 2019
Stories

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Nobody: 4:40pm On Apr 05, 2019
two in Lagos that is already congested while one for the entire south south and south east that is in dire need of ports.

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by BackToLife: 4:45pm On Apr 05, 2019
Timekeeper:
Thanks to our developas
Waiting for our Igbo brothers to come and claim this as their achievements in Lagos...
Why this tribalism against your own brothers? The current seed of stagnating tribalism was intentionally sown by our white colonial masters. Learn your true History, as discussed earlier here today: I categorically explained the History as being told by my Grandpa. Did you read where I mentioned that fierce battle for Kingship led one of the 2 Princes of Olugbo of Ugbo Land to migrate far? Even though there are still very many obvious links that confirmed the blood relationship, the one that went to found the current Earstern Igbo land could have felt so offended and bitter that he would obliterate whatever that would show links. Even at that, his effort was not really successful because there are many similarities that white researchers delebrately ignored, they document and teach only would make you useful indirect slaves. Till date most people hardly heard or know about Holodomor Ukrainian genocide because the truth was twisted, minimized and silenced. If they recently did that to near-whites neighbors, you think they would tell you the True Key to your ruling the World?! Chinese abroad were ridiculed till Chinese at home did the needful and developed China. The key to the make Black Americans and Blacks all over the World proud of their being black is in brotherliness of Igbo and Yorubas because they are the first direct defendants of the first Man and Women, the Universe did it that way. White men are very evil and they know what they were doing from the beginning. They knew that the only way to enslave us and maintain strangle hold on Black African Destiny is to keep Yoruba and Igbo divided. It's not a mistake that the World says Nigeria has the largest concentration of Black Africans. In USA Yoruba Professors are lecturing in almost every University today. The Africans that are shaking the World for good or bad are either Yoruba or Igbo, how many times have you heard HausaFulani invented something good out there in the World? Elite Spiritism and Divination was common among our Colonia Masters, they saw that re-Unity of Igbo and Yoruba would rule the World. They must have foresaw by their witchcraft and psychology that the day true brotherly Love return between the 2, Black Africans would rule the World; guaranteed! That is the bitter Truth. Their archeologists and etymologists intentionally work against that. In fact, the archeplogists must have rather destroyed any uniting artifacts that would bring Prophesy to reality, they reavel only what would serve their own interest. History, Quran and Bible were mostly about black people before the white started emerging like the Abinos and starting their own bigger family. Nature always give us evidence to liberate we blacks from mental slavery, but some love and hold on tight to there slave chains. The Whites and Arabs know this Truth, that's why they both have hands in ensuring the burning of our true Hieroglyphically confirmed History that was saved in the first World library in Egypt. They then re-wrote and gave us only enough knowledge for indirect slavery. Out of demonic envy of African past of prophesied glorious future, Julius Caesar set fire on the Library during his civil war in 48 BC; followed by the attack of Aurelian in AD 270 – 275; followed by the decree of Coptic Pope Theophilus of Alexandria in 391 AD; and the Arabs finally destroy the remaining during conquest of Egypt in AD 642.
Our major problem is that we believe and rely on the devilish White people more than our CREATOR. It's not a Mistake that the great Awolowo started first TV Station, first Skyscappers and first many amazing things that had never been done before in any other black African Country. You and I know that Yoruba and Igbos have a kind of uncommon intelligence in common, and it's due to common ancestry that the Whites tried to obliterate.

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by abumoney(m): 4:45pm On Apr 05, 2019
Long overdue.
God bless PMB

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by SLAP44: 4:45pm On Apr 05, 2019
Una do tire? grin

I thought you will like more seaports around Lagos and Ogun and even another dry port in Ibadan grin

Of course na them dey still cry and complain when we all troop to Lagos to clear our new Mercedes benz grin

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by LordGuru1: 4:46pm On Apr 05, 2019
Lagos is a great Place. God shall Bless us in Lagos. Click like if you agree.
BackToLife:
Why this tribalism against your own brothers? The current seed of stagnating tribalism was intentionally sown by our white colonial masters. Learn your true History, as discussed earlier here today: I categorically explained the History as being told by my Grandpa. Did you read where I mentioned that fierce battle for Kingship led one of the 2 Princes of Olugbo of Ugbo Land to migrate far?
Wow! I used to hear these things as rumours but now I know the history is real. May you live long to see your heart desires come to reality. Both are truly great: Igbo Ologo! Yoruba, Amaka!

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Kendumazy(m): 4:46pm On Apr 05, 2019
Same story. We are waiting for the completion.

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by arabbunkum: 4:47pm On Apr 05, 2019
Mouth action

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Tintinnoty(m): 4:47pm On Apr 05, 2019
So the seaport proposed to be built in Badagry is under probability.......





My Badagry.

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by iammo(m): 4:47pm On Apr 05, 2019
tongue


You either join national politics and forget bitterness Or continue screaming marginalisation while others keep getting more airports, mutiple seaports, standard guage railway , private refinery etc



.

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by tripper003: 4:48pm On Apr 05, 2019
Oyaa o! smiley
Bring it on...and fast. Dat two road no go drench person with frustration. Just hope this isn't another political shenanigan.

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Emmywizzy05(m): 4:48pm On Apr 05, 2019
can't you post something relevant
Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by lilfreezy: 4:48pm On Apr 05, 2019
A third project, the Ibom seaport, is under consideration in the oil-rich Niger delta

LOL! Wickedness will never allow us grow as a nation. Later they will be boasting about highest IGR grin

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by YoungAncient1: 4:49pm On Apr 05, 2019
The earlier the Ibom seaport starts, the better. If Apapa congest more than it is now, it might just explode.

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Blue3k(m): 4:50pm On Apr 05, 2019
People where complaining like they didnt have this information already. Fact is all these updates are on nairaland but people would rather wallow ignorance. All these updates are on nairaland but those threads are dead unless it's related it to Lagos.

A third project, the Ibom seaport, is under consideration in the oil-rich Niger delta , Nigerian Ports Authority Managing Director, Hadiza Bala-Usman, disclosed in a recent interview with Bloomberg.

She used wrong word guys. Ibom Deep Seaport already has a preferred bidder with terms being negotiated.

Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by odeebee: 4:50pm On Apr 05, 2019
Emmywizzy05:
can't you post something relevant


Asswear me too just tire
Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Timekeeper: 4:50pm On Apr 05, 2019
Thanks to our developas


Waiting for our Igbo brothers to come and claim this as their achievements in Lagos...

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Tintinnoty(m): 4:50pm On Apr 05, 2019
Who's this fool
Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by STRENGTHesq(m): 4:50pm On Apr 05, 2019
damn Jobless MOFO
Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by oluwasegun007(m): 4:51pm On Apr 05, 2019
WTF...
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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by AutoReportNG: 4:52pm On Apr 05, 2019
We deceive ourselves so much in this country...
Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by jchioma: 4:53pm On Apr 05, 2019
Buhari /APC will never disappoint in their tribal and parochial agenda.

Before now, there was sea ports at Warri, Koko, Sapele, Port Harcourt.

Why open new ones when you have old unused ports with already made facilities?

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Omudia11: 4:53pm On Apr 05, 2019
When you tell them how the bolded is a hindrance, they always deny. They should come and deny this now.
olas24u:


A third project, the Ibom seaport, is under consideration in the oil-rich Niger delta , Nigerian Ports Authority Managing Director, Hadiza Bala-Usman, disclosed in a recent interview with Bloomberg.

The government had in the past year, invested in developing the eastern ports of Warri, Calabar, Onne and Port Harcourt, whose river channels are too narrow to accommodate large vessels, forcing shipping companies to take their vessels to Lagos.

Bala-Usman has also encouraged flat-bottomed vessels that do not require too much sea depth to berth at the eastern ports and the response has been encouraging as there was an increase in the number of such vessels calling at the Port Harcourt and Calabar ports since last year.

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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Dandsome: 4:54pm On Apr 05, 2019
Lol all in Lagos abi?

Badamua
Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Enemyzy5: 4:55pm On Apr 05, 2019
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Re: New Seaports Underway To Ease Apapa Gridlock –NPA by Beadex1(m): 4:56pm On Apr 05, 2019
Akwa ibom seaport is under consideration when we have large space and the sea here is far better than Lagos own.....something is definitely wrong with this country. Our senators that should be fight for our rights are just there jostling for juicy positions. Imagine how many south south indigenes this would have chartered for.

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