Calabar Port will remain dormant as long as the Government and those in charge of NPA see it as 'eastern' Port

items 8 and 9 calls to question the Nigerian attitude

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Longer live Biafra

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Apapa and Abidjan port are still the deepest bays on the west African coast. politics apart it's natural if federal govt and investors utilizes apapa and tin can more.

Blankstare:
Apapa and Abidjan port are still the deepest bays on the west African coast. politics apart it's natural if federal govt and investors utilizes apapa and tin can more.

Bros there is nothing natural about it. If the government really wants to do it they can. If UAE could transform Dubai port to a deepsea port i don't see why they can't do it for Calabar port that just needs a little dredging to allow for bigger vessels. Afterall it was even the british that dredged the lagos lagoon channel to build Apapa Port that made large shipping come through

Nigerian government is not serious

igwedubai2:
The calaber supposed to the capital of naija. Tru or false

It was the first capital of Nigeria

So why couldn't PDP that is known for transformation do that but foolish people expect Buhari many claim he is archaic to transform the port ?

obynzo:


Bros there is nothing natural about it. If the government really wants to do it they can. If UAE could transform Dubai port to a deepsea port i don't see why they can't do it for Calabar port that just needs a little dredging to allow for bigger vessels. Afterall it was even the british that dredged the lagos lagoon channel to build Apapa Port that made large shipping come through

igwedubai2:
The calaber supposed to the capital of naija. Tru or false

One short sentence 100 mistakes
Speak Yoruba nah

This is exactly what is wrong with Nigeria. Each administration would award contracts for projects but they would NEVER be performed. And the sad part about it is that no one, not even in the prior or succeeding administration had ever asked why was the same contract awarded over and over? The simple reason is that each administration sees it as a means to siphon money from the national treasury. Each one just signs a new contract for the same project and does not care whether the contract is performed or not. Then we wander why all these other countries treat Nigerians and their leaders with levity and regard them as stupid. Things like these would not be tolerated or allowed in their countries without somebody going to jail for that. But in Nigeria, such unpatriotic, heartless and self-serving rogues are celebrated and applauded, unfortunately by the same citizens that would have benefited from these projects.

You're right

AutoJoshNIG:


1. The Calabar Port is located in the estuaries of the Calabar, Cross River State in the South-Southern region of Nigeria.


2. Calabar Port, together with the Port Harcourt, Warri, and Onne, are the gateway for sea trade in the South-Southern, South-Eastern part of Nigeria.


3. In December 1969, the Federal Government took over the port from previous private operators who were mostly shipping companies. The government handed the management of the port to the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA).


4. The development, modernization, and expansion of the Calabar port were embarked upon under the 3rd National Development Plan of 1975–1980. This was done in order to upgrade the port facility to cope with the ever-increasing demand of the Nigerian economy.


5. On the 9th of June, 1979, the new Calabar Port complex was commissioned. It lies 45 nautical miles (about84km) upstream from Fairway Buoy.


6. The port currently is made up of the Old Port, New Port, Dockyard and rights to some Crude Oil Terminals at Antan, Odudu, Yoho, QuaIboe; and other jetties at NIWA, McIver, NNPC, ALSCON, Dozzy, Northwest.


7. The three Terminals of Calabar Port are operated by the Terminal Operators; namely: Ecomarine Terminal Ltd, INTELS Nigeria Ltd, and Shoreline Logistics Nigeria Limited.


8. The Calabar Port is the nearest port to 16 northern states (especially in the North-Eastern region) in Nigeria. However, most of these states are being serviced by the port of Douala in Cameroun.


9. The port was also designed to serve as quick access and strategic hub to the neighbouring countries like Chad, Niger and Cameroon. The landlocked Niger Republic is closer to Calabar than Cotonou. Yet, the ports in Cotonou is currently being used by Niger as an import/export hub.


10. The Calabar Port has a siltation rate of over 30 percent. The draught is 5.4 metres on low water and 6.4 metres on high water. All these have reportedly made it extremely difficult for large vessels to call at the port.


11. The port is estimated to be currently generating about N12 billion yearly into the Federal Government coffers. In 2018, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS ) generated N404billion as revenue from the Apapa port in the year 2018.


12. With proximity to 16 northern states, some eastern markets, and the landlocked country of Niger Republic, Calabar Port is strategically located to serve as a hub for the landlocked country of Niger and earn significant revenue for the government.


13. Several attempts to open up the Port through dredging of its 84 nautical miles channel have consistently hit a brick wall.



14. The first contract for the dredging of the Calabar Port Channel was awarded in 1996 during the administration of late General Sani Abacha. The contract was awarded to a little known Chinese company that showed up for a while and simply vanished.



15. In 2006, the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo awarded the contract again to two Dutch companies at a cost of $56million. Both companies left the contract without completing their assignment.


16. On November 17, 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan awarded another contract to complete the project. The completion contracted was award for N20billion. The contract, which was signed by the NPA, the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) and the Calabar Channel Management, was for the port to be dredged up to 9.8 metres, but it also hit the brick wall.



17. The Managing Director of NPA, Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman, advised maritime business operators at the Calabar port to adopt flat bottom vessels due to the low draft of the channel. However, maritime expert says flat bottom vessels have tonnage limitations and do not meet the economies of scale of volumes in modern-day shipping.



18. On October, 2018, the Managing director of NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman, announced that the revenue generated at the Calabar port would determine whether the federal government would spend a whopping N50billion on the Calabar port dredging.



19. In Nov 12, 2018, the Federal Government arrested the Senator Hope Uzodinma, a senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, and a governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, for the failure of his company to execute a contract of $12 million for the dredging of Calabar channel.



20. When fully functional, it is expected that the Calabar Port would increase the volume of vessel traffic and cargo throughput in the port, decongest Lagos ports and reduce the cost of doing business for South-South, South-East based businessmen who spend additional transport cost to take delivery of their consignments in Lagos and Onne ports.




Source:

https://autojosh.com/20-things-to-know-about-the-calabar-sea-port-a-must-read/

Op

South south is a geo-political zone

Not a region

It's geographically located in the south eastern region of Nigeria

Please try n act like your educated!

Hope you study geography in secondary school

uckennety:



Op

South south is a geo-political zone

Not a region

It's geographically located in the south eastern region of Nigeria

Please try n act like your educated!

Hope you study geography in secondary school

Keep quiet.
Thank you autojosh for your write up. I have learn something today about Calabar port.

OgboAto:
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What exactly is ‘South-Southern’? Is there any modicum of sense in that?

South of Southern Nigeria.
Simple English

selfdefence:
what is that brick wall that is stopping the port from being dredged?

the British instructions to the hausafulani and also the warbooty of the southwest for supporting one Nigeria is to have the monopoly of seaport and airport in the zoo

ginaeve:
I just hope that Tinubu does not try to block the building of this seaport and make it take forever to be completed.

Are you Easterners intelligent at all?


Even Tinubu blocked the building during GEJ 6years rule?


You guys are disgusting....I swear

Can I import car there

drkay:
Very educating. I believe that there’s more to what we might know about the reason why the 3 previous attempts to dredge and upgrade the port failed.

yes