After all the big big talk, see wia we still dey.

Lanrelagboi:

https://twitter.com/Mr_JAGss/status/1343624998813106182?s=19

nonsense

everytime nah so so visit with no yielded work.
well I pray they Change
I pray everyone repent and believe the gospel
I pray the overhype government fulfilled their promise

Jesus save

Good one, Lasg. If they cant handle it, let's give 'em a hand afterall the mess is affecting us too. We cant afford to stand aloof while they make a rut; time we manned up and helped clear the mess.
Lagos must be great by force.
Eko o ni baje o

Na wa o

To bad..

make dem go build or upgrade the port at rivers, akwa ibom, delta and calabar. by so doing grid lock go disappear for lagos and cost of goods and service go comme down anyhow

a be new comer for nairaland o

Lanrelagboi:


https://twitter.com/Mr_JAGss/status/1343624998813106182?s=19

A security personnel fainted on live camera wearing a face mask.
Make una dey try to breathe fresh air Sirs.

The ports in the niger delta should be utilized in the meantime

The Lagos state Government that is incapable of controlling Okada riders wants to take up the clearing of Trucks and Tankers gridlock at Apapa and Tincan. I laugh in Greek. Let's see how they want to do it!

i tire for this country.....

Very simple solution but monsters on that road will never allow it to work since they feed on other peoples hard earn sweat.....

Simple solution to Apapa and Tincan port.

1. Decongest the port by providing other enabling port along the cost of Nigeria.

2. Channel rails to the port to bring in imports and process export on that same corridor.

3. Tell all port operators to have their bonded terminals at Ogun state where they can receive empty containers and train move it whenever they are set.

4. Get e-stickers for any export continer and plant automated gates Along the road to read the stickers and allow truck to pass. Trucks without stickers will be fine heavily.

For God sake how can economy grow when containers use 21-28days on the road that Is not up to 15km.

There should be urgent solution not visit upon visit.

A government that cannot decongest a common seaport since 6 years now how can we believe that they can fix a macro economy like Nigeria.

NDI ARA‼️

These guys should stop all these charade and playing to the gallery. The major problem is the sale of the Tin can island and Apapa wharf trailer parks to private companies by Olusegun Obasanjo. The trailer parks in these ports have been fully built up by these private companies leaving the trucks no options than to park on our highways.

How in the world will a sane government sell off the trailer parks attached to these ports? I’ve been to several west African countries with bustling ports and Lagos is the only place you have this madness.

This problem is going to linger till rapture unless a serious minded government creates alternative trailer park in these ports.

Diverting traffic to other ports will definitely help reduce the pressure but it won’t solve the major issue on ground.

The roads are too small for today's commercial activites!

The problem of this country na like wahala wet be like bicycle

The Financial Time (FT.COM) wrote an article on the chaos at the Apapa Port, this is following an editorial last week that
Nigeria is at risk of becoming a failed state.

Nigeria’s port crisis: the $4,000 charge to carry goods across Lagos
Congestion, bribery and storage costs add to problems for importers in Africa’s largest economy


The congestion at the port in Lagos has become so bad that it can cost more than $4,000 to truck a container 20km to the Nigerian mainland these days, almost as much as it costs to ship one 12,000 nautical miles from China.

A long-running crisis at the Apapa and Tin Can Island ports, the main commercial entry points into Africa’s largest economy, has been exacerbated by the pandemic-induced economic slump and recent unrest in Nigeria’s commercial capital. Dozens of ships idle at sea, while hundreds of trucks sit in traffic for days or weeks waiting to enter and exit the port.

“During the pandemic, there was a lockdown and then curfews, so dock labour couldn't resume work as scheduled. That lowered productivity and extended the long stays of the vessels,” said Otunba Kunle Folarin, chairman of the Nigerian Ports Consultative Council.

Around the world, the coronavirus pandemic has strained international supply chains and threatened to disrupt trade.

In Lagos, the port area is even more crowded at the busy year-end period, and the Seaport Terminal Operators Association estimates that the congestion costs the country $55m a day in lost economic activity.

Just days before the Africa Continental Free Trade Area agreement comes into effect, Nigerian businesses complain that higher costs make it hard for them to compete. “We all know that the congestion at the ports is bad for the economy,” said Jumoke Oduwole, head of the agency tasked with improving Nigeria’s business environment.

“The government has been talking about ease of doing business,” said Muda Yusuf, director-general of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry. “But if there is one sector where we have not felt the government effort . . . it's in the ports, where practically nothing has changed.”

The port’s capacity has not increased since 1997, even as Lagos’s population has roughly tripled. Nigeria imports a lot of raw materials and almost all finished goods, and the congestion is causing production delays for multinationals.

“There has been some progress on road improvements and some effort toward [speeding up] clearance of containers, but it has not been consistent or smooth,” said a senior executive at a multinational. “I can’t see it being fixed in the next 12 to 18 months.”

The average spot rate this year to ship a 20ft container from Shanghai to Lagos is about $3,000, according to Shanghai Containerized Freight Index data provided by Dutch shipping consultancy Dynamar, the equivalent of about $3,750 to $4,000 for a 40ft container. The current spot rate is $5,000. Cargo ships often wait more than a month off the coast before they can offload their goods in the port — roughly how long some spend in transit to Lagos from China. 

Increased congestion at the end of the year has pushed prices for the transport of goods to the mainland higher. Rather than pay lower rates for a truck that could take several weeks to enter the port, while accruing costly terminal container storage charges, most importers opt to pay spot prices to fleet operators, which charge N1.5m ($3,953) to drive a 40ft container from Tin Can to warehouses within Lagos, according to senior executives at logistics firms. Apapa is cheaper at the moment, with current rates up to N700,000, in part because it is thought to be a better run.

That figure includes road access charges and bribes but does not include terminal or storage charges at the port, general costs — which can run into the tens of thousands of dollars — associated with ships parked at sea or money extorted by criminals and officials while trucks wait days in traffic jams.



The port congestion is caused by ageing infrastructure, meagre rail transport that forces 90 per cent of cargo to go by road and an almost complete lack of automation, which means every container must be physically inspected by customs officials. It has been compounded by increased sea traffic since the closure of the country’s land borders to combat smuggling last year.

Hadiza Bala Usman, head of the Nigerian Ports Authority, said the agency was working to speed things up. The NPA plans to digitise the processing of containers and has pressed terminal operators to invest more, including Dutch company APM Terminals, which announced an $80m upgrade to its Apapa facility this year.

One 35km stretch of road from the port is being refurbished by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote’s construction company in return for a tax holiday. More companies are also using barges to move containers to bonded warehouses, where they can clear customs away from the port.

Other improvements are on the horizon. About 60km east of Lagos, the Singaporean food company Tolaram and China Harbour Engineering Company are building a $1.5bn deep seaport. But it is not expected to be completed until 2022.

In the meantime, the dysfunction in Lagos is allowing other west African ports, servicing far smaller markets, to eclipse Nigeria.

Lome, in Togo, is now the region’s busiest port, and cargo destined for Nigeria is increasingly offloaded or shipped via smaller vessels from ports in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Congo-Brazzaville. 

“Nigeria is definitely behind the curve,” said Darron Wadey, senior analyst at Dynamar. “What you’re seeing in Lagos . . . I can’t recall seeing anything like it anywhere else in the world.”

https://www.ft.com/content/a807f714-7542-4464-b359-b9bb35bdda10

rabosh:
These guys should stop all these charade and playing to the gallery. The major problem is the sale of the Tin can island and Apapa wharf trailer parks to private companies by Olusegun Obasanjo. The trailer parks in these ports have been fully built up by these private companies leaving the trucks no options than to park on our highways.

How in the world will a sane government sell off the trailer parks attached to these ports? I’ve been to several west African countries with bustling ports and Lagos is the only place you have this madness.

This problem is going to linger till rapture unless a serious minded government creates alternative trailer park in these ports.

Diverting traffic to other ports will definitely help reduce the pressure but it won’t solve the major issue on ground.

Who bought the trailer parks?

SehgateTeam:
Very simple solution but monsters on that road will never allow it to work since they feed on other peoples hard earn sweat.....

Simple solution to Apapa and Tincan port.

1. Decongest the port by providing other enabling port along the cost of Nigeria.

2. Channel rails to the port to bring in imports and process export on that same corridor.

3. Tell all port operators to have their bonded terminals at Ogun state where they can receive empty containers and train move it whenever they are set.

4. Get e-stickers for any export continer and plant automated gates Along the road to read the stickers and allow truck to pass. Trucks without stickers will be fine heavily.

For God sake how can economy grow when containers use 21-28days on the road that Is not up to 15km.

There should be urgent solution not visit upon visit.

You have highlighted very good Processes and Technology but with the right people nothing will change.

tobtap:
government in naija have not manage anytin successfully... so i wud advocate privatizing the ports for efficient managements... govt have no business in business... E.G.. the port autority DG is from kaduna with no prior history in d maritime industry... it is bound to fail

Privatisation doesn't work in corrupt countries just look at the power sectors.

wahala no dey finish

This life is shuffle

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Why working on lagos port alone when we have so. Many ports in Nigeria.... Nigeria can nver be better e get why

peterangelo:
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Merry Christmas

Under Buhari anything Federal or Presidency is Dead.

I honestly don't understand why Apapa is not working under Buhari & his team?

Na ur people still dey control the port, so introducing Lastma and Police is to encourage more kworruption.

SlayerForever:
Shey they won get port only them? Yoruba people must hear wihn.

Someone should do dat kicking meme for dis guy

How can you take over when they already finished with their assignment, what kinda misleading headline is this... The governor said this is going to be a seamless team. Despite the fact that road in apapa has been repaired, what is causing gridlock is extortion from the drivers, this is the next thing the state government want to look Into...fish out the cabals and make them Scape goats

I think the physical infrastructure for such operation is a 45% factor;
- the physical size is small

- the organization and flow of containers and ships is not planned properly


-better container yards or storage (not supposed to be lined up on the road.



Then the accountability factor is at 45% of the whole issue in my
- too much slowing down of paper work, sometimes with the intent of frustrating the customer to pay more.

- too analog (paperwork instead of computer work); paper work can still do the job but it is not planned properly almost like container movement.


-handling of goods

- many subpar action



Solutions should be

to have a one or a few places to pay for container services (import or export)


to have continuous trainings on planned ways of operation


To have a better computer system
(Lol..... Electricity go show us how far on this)


To have better trained agents, or have the main owner, or one person that the owner approves, do the follow up of the goods/container. I don't think a person that has some goods in a container, but not the owner, should be in there.


More tech and physical security of goods


Etc



And more better ways.

Advise govt to open up other ports onne,warri n co....let lagos port be decongested....