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Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Blue3k2: 3:13pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Anambra State Shippers’ Association, has appealed to the Federal Government to gazette and make the Onitsha River Port functional. Read more at: http://www.pulse.ng/news/local/shippers-urge-fg-to-gazette-onitsha-river-port-functional-id8220315.html |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by okachie1(m): 4:31pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Seriously as a matter of urgency they should cos d majority of imported goods that docks in Lagos is from the east especially Aba and Onitsha. It makes sense if ships could be docking at Onitsha port and PH too in other to make it easier for the Easterners. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by joeyfire(m): 4:35pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
They are not interested in making any port in the east viable. No be today matter 7 Likes |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by ruggedized1: 4:55pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
OP, why not tell Bubu |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by CodeTemplar: 5:01pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
I heard the waters around the SS ports aren't deep enough to encourage the more common vessels in. |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by dynicks(m): 5:04pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
ok |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Blue3k2: 5:06pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Dredging inland rivers is already part of ERGP and Amachi already promised it should be ready by 2019. Let's be foreal though this is low priority for him. It's similar to 2nd Niger Bridge. ruggedized1: |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by ruggedized1: 5:08pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Why must a completed Port wait for 2019? Why 2019 to start operation? Again, why is such an important economically viable project that will transformed the lives of the people of the SE be a ''low priority'' project? This is the only reason I support Ipob/massob. Blue3k2: 5 Likes |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by NonsoWow: 5:11pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
River Niger needs to be properly dredged and not the fake dredging that late Yar Adua did. Onitsha is the greatest city in Igboland and a functioning port there will cause an economic explosion never before seen in the history of the black race. 3 Likes |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Blue3k2: 5:22pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
The port is irrelevant to them except as political football to kick around. I could ask why Jonathan who completed port with time to spare before leaving office didn't gazzete port. ruggedized1: abandoning the port for over six years after its completion and inauguration, was an invitation to self-inflicted hardship, adding that shippers in the area had become impatient over the neglect of the port. |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by SamuelAnyawu(m): 5:25pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
The Major reason i was not Happy with GEJ |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Nobody: 5:44pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Blue3k2:He should have gazzeted that port. |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Nobody: 5:46pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Blue3k2: That port go make sense. Don't know why it's not yet operational. 3 Likes |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Nobody: 5:47pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
SamuelAnyawu:That and Second Niger Bridge. |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by 0monnak0da: 5:53pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Why must it be a River Port. A dry port can be just as useful and why just Onitsha Why not Abuja, Lokoja Ibadan and so on. A dry dock is a more realistic proposal than a river port. Please if you must quote me do not be rude o that your mother does not die of cancer |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Blue3k2: 6:14pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
1. It's river port because the plan was to give shippers annother option of transporting goods and easing pressure on roads. 2. There already river port planned for Lokoja, Baro and Oguta River ports. The dry port will be located in Isiala Ngwa in Abia state, Erunmu, Ibadan in Oyo state, Heipang in Plateau state, Zawachiki in Kano state, Zamfarawa, Funtua in Katsina state and Maiduguri in Borno state. 3. Sure you wouldn't have to dredge anything. You just need to build good roads. If the issue is only gazseting like they say then there's no reason both cabt exist. 0monnak0da: |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by 0monnak0da: 6:35pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Blue3k2: Dry port does not have to involve roads. Rail is more appropriate from Akwa Ibom ,Rivers or Bayelsa. That is the correct strategic investment The problem with river port is that it will involve dredging in Rivers and Bayelsa states whhich would put them at risk of flooding and they have little or nothing to gain from it.They will have to agree to any such dredging. It cannot be taken for granted as many seem to, that they will simply acquiesce and say "carry on" of course dredging will invovle Abia and Imo states too . Drredging will not be a one off. Given the history of the FG that is unreliable The environmental impact of dredging a river in a delta area with so many creeks is unpredictable. Even if the flooding is due to global warming dredging would be blamed. We have not forgotten the floods of 2012 There is an assumption that the River Niger is immortal and would always be there. Is that realistic. What happened to Lake Chad? Google RIVER NIGER DRYING. Even if it does not dry There is nothing to stop ,in the future Niger, Mali etc damming or diverting thee river. We need to invest in what we can control 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Ttipsy(f): 7:04pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
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Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Ttipsy(f): 7:04pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
long overdue. Apapa WARF is over stressed.
come to my street, traffic gridlock is hell. the FG need to decongest Lagos abeg 1 Like |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Blue3k2: 7:16pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Theres already the rail lines planned for all parts of nation so thst doesn't need to be debated. The flooding that nobody can gauge till the actually do an EIA. Yar Adua carrired out dredging did we experience more flooding as result. Most of the benefits would go to SE and northern states. The states on coast would have a deep seaport already. You could be right nobody knows how they will vote on matter when it comes up. Last I read mali is dredging to make it navigable I doubt the have plans to stop flow. Second just like in case with Niger Republic dam ask them to make concession so the don't effect down stream. I looked at articles about river Niger Drying up like you said, it said unauthorized dams and climate change it the issue. Even then it's be interesting if we're experience both flooding and drying by same river. Lake Chad was climate change and increased irrigation due to population growth. 0monnak0da: |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by 0monnak0da: 7:33pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Blue3k2: Sure But what about the source of the Niger, its orign in Guinea ? And the several downstream countries ,in the desert ? Are they unaffected by climate change? |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Blue3k2: 7:40pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Is the question rhetorical? I don't know about guinea. Did the countries ever finish the study on why the Niger river drying. 0monnak0da: |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Nonaira3: 7:44pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
I love my SE brethren but they need to wake up. This shithole does not care about anything that's beneficial to Igboland. You and I know this shithole would never open that port. You know that hence we should focus our attention in getting ourselves out of this hateful, retrogressive shithole 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by 0monnak0da: 7:57pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Blue3k2: Well "The Niger" is rather a technical matter. As well it is geopolitical and military. It is difficult to disscuss if you don't know these in significant microdetail or even why it is called "Niger" and what else it may be called. The conflicting claims of ownership and the technical realithy that climate change could force others upstream to reduce our "share" to a trickle, then what ? Pump in water from the Atlantic? |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by Efewestern: 8:23pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Long overdue, I also urge the federal government to make Warri port functional, it can service Anambra, Ondo and other nearby states . |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by anibirelawal(m): 9:02pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Coming soon. |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by mikolo80: 11:09pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
we import chines goods from aba and onitsha? okachie1: |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by mikolo80: 11:11pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
ruggedized1:if they transform then the decepticons can't win election with rice cups they will need at leats 1 pallet per voter that doe'st leave much for them to loot now does it |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by mikolo80: 11:13pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
0monnak0da:the imports still need a water port na and lagos is congested? |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by mikolo80: 11:14pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
Blue3k2:trailers are damaging the roads hence river transport |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by mikolo80: 11:24pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
0monnak0da:RAIL??!!! in nigeria when will that one ever happen have you learnt nothing from the ajaokuta debacle and i still think port congestion is an issue
methinks dredging will REDUCE flood risk due to 'deepering and widering' the water channel so can handle higher throughput
when almighty FG is involved and billions of potential naira? stop kidding his a serious matter
and rail construction will be?
we blame obj gej and now bubu for everything yet life goes on fuggedaboutit
wetin concine flood with dredging really i'd like to know
lake
river see how they different but seriously the problem is reduced watershed in futa jallon(source of the niger) if my primary school geography serves me correctly so plant more trees in burkina faso
treaty's agreements money federal might we don't seem to be able to control sht |
Re: Make Onitsha River Port Functional, Shippers Urge FG by mikolo80: 11:27pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
0monnak0da:i still don't get it even after damming the flow rate should remain the same |
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