₦airaland Forum

mfm04622:
What is the plan for Dangote Port?

1. Would it be handed over to Fg?
2. Closed down?
3. Operated by Dangote for the use of Dangote alone?
4. Operated by Dangote and open to all users?

Thank you.

naptu2:
5) Moving goods on the Atlantic by ship and barge

As I said, Dangote built its own port when it was building its refinery and there's also the Lekki Deep Sea Port in the area. Some of the goods from Ibeju Lekki will be moved by sea.

Yes, I am also referring to goods that will be moved to other parts of Lagos and to other parts of Nigeria.

Dangote will move its petroleum products by ship from Lekki to Apapa and other parts of the Lagos Mainland. Containers will also be moved by barge from Lekki to Onne, Warri, Onitsha and other parts of Nigeria.



https://businessday.ng/energy/article/dangotes-first-sea-cargo-of-petrol-arrives-lagos-as-key-refinery-ramps-up/?amp

Video of the construction of the Dangote Port.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ2CuBXkT6Q?si=O5ePxid7H6K3EJLe


Video: Moving containers from Lekki Seaport to the West African Container Terminal in Onne, Rivers State by ship.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xHEyyX55gs?si=j0Jy9MsGul1s5KlT

ibawon:
Naptu2 thanks so much for this very detailed and informative thread. As an indigene of that area, it's refreshing to witness this, I remembered some of my friends who tapped into this earlier when I told them. God bless you!

naptu2:
There is a troll that has just tried to provoke you. Please ignore him.

naptu2:
Introduction

Ibeju Lekki was one of the rural local governments of Lagos when I was growing up. Government interventions in the area were usually about establishing farm settlements and improving the lives of rural dwellers. However, things have started changing in the area.

Ibeju Lekki Local Government should not be confused with the Lekki Phase 1 to Ajah areas, which are in Eti-Osa Local Government.

Lekki, in Eti-Osa, witnessed rapid growth and development in the 1990s and 2000s with the establishment of Lekki Phase 1, Victoria Garden City and other estates. The oil companies, Chevron, Elf and Mobil, also established structures in the area.

This led to congestion on the Lekki-Epe Expressway. I remember that the expressway had absolutely no traffic jams up till the mid-1990s, but it later became synonymous with traffic jams.

Development has now spread from Lekki in Eti-Osa to Ibeju Lekki Local Government. The local government is being transformed from a rural local government to a heavily industrialised one. Ibeju Lekki Local Government currently hosts and will host the folllowing facilities:

1) The Lekki Deep Sea Port: This is currently the deepest and biggest port in Nigeria.

2) The Lekki Free Trade Zone: This free trade zone is home to many industrial concerns including a Kellogg's cereals plant, a Sinotruck heavy truck assembly plant, Golden Dream Diapers plant, etc.

3) Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company: This refinery is also at the Lekki Free Trade Zone.

4) Alaro City: This new city, which is being built to rival Lekki Phase 1, Victoria Garden City, Banana Island and Eko Atlantic City is also in Ibeju Lekki Local Government.

5) The proposed Lekki Airport is also at Ibeju Lekki Local Government.

6) Dangote Port: Due to the fact that the Apapa Port could not handle some of the equipment that he needed for his refinery, Dangote built another port in the Ibeju Lekki area and it was deep enough and had the equipment to enable him import what he needed for his refinery.


With all these developments springing up in the local government area, people fear that the kind of congestion that we see in Apapa and even in neighbouring Eti-Osa (Lekki Phase 1 to Abraham Adesanya area) will be witnessed in Ibeju Lekki and some also fear that the traffic jams will spread from Ibeju Lekki to Eti-Osa.

However, there have been plans to prevent this from happening. Some of the facilities that are going to help to prevent this from happening have already been built, some are currently being built, while others have yet to be built.

This thread highlights those facilities.

Pictures 1-3) Maps of the local governments in Lagos showing Ibeju Lekki and Eti-Osa local governments.

Picture 4) Satellite picture showing Ibeju Lekki, Epe and Ijebu Ode.

dominique:
How I wish they can find a way to decongest Lagos

naptu2:
As far as I know, it is only used by Dangote. I'm sure you've read stories about, "Dangote exports petrol to Singapore" or "Dangote exports petrol to Ghana" or "Dangote imports crude oil from the United States". All this traffic goes through the Dangote Port.

wasuka14:
The only best way is to go back to your villages. Move your cars, businesses and lorries to your various villages. Who said that isn't possible??