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The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Ms Hadiza Bala Usman has called on port users to take advantage of incentives introduced to ease the financial burden following the congestion resulting from the traffic gridlock in the port city of Apapa.
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Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman recently visited the corportae headquarters of Vanguard Media Ltd. publishers of Vanguard Newspaper. She spoke on the problematic Apapa traffic, why the eastern ports are under-ultilised, intermodel connectivity at the ports, availibility of scanners at the ports and many more issues.
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Yet, the Federal and Lagos State governments have made repeated efforts to solve this seemingly intractable threat to the nation’s economy. Vice- President Yemi Osinbajo had met with private sector stakeholders and also given the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, MPWH, and the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, clear directives towards clearing the traffic quagmire.
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The rapid increase in the cost of hauling containers from the Apapa Port to warehouses within Lagos is giving importers sleepless nights as the cargo delivery charge is now N700, 000 per container, which is over 483 percent increase against the N120, 000 charged for a 40-foot container and 80, 000 charged for 20-foot container few months ago.
Read More HONEYWELL Flour Mills Plc has released its financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2018, posting N17.7 billion revenue from net sales of flour, semolina, wheat meal, pasta and instant noodles products.
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Stakeholders in the maritime industry have said that planned reconstruction of the failed roads in the port vicinities of Apapa and its environ is not the solution to the chaotic traffic situation in the area.
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THE Federal Government, yesterday, shifted the proposed three-day closure of the Third Mainland Bridge for Investigative Maintenance Test, earlier scheduled to commence on July 27, to August 24, 2018.
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SINCE the beginning of the year 2018, it has been hell for motorists and other road users in the Mile Two/Berger/Coconut/Tin Can axis of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.
Read More FOLLOWING a 72-hour directive issued by the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo last Friday, in Lagos to restore order in Apapa and its environs, the Lagos State Government has resolved to set up a Mobile Court within the axis to summarily deal with recalcitrant drivers of articulated vehicles.
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Immediate past chairman of the Council of Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN and Managing Director of Talod Oceanair Freight Limited, Alhaji Hakeem Olanrewaju, in this interview with Maritime Reporter, Godfrey Bivbere, speaks on several issues ranging from permanent solution to the perennial traffic situation around the Apapa ports, CRFFN, domination of Customs brokers’ job by foreigners and many more. Excerpt:
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The chaotic traffic situation at the seaports in Lagos has resulted in about 1100 percent hike in the cost of transportation of imported goods from the ports in Apapa to surrounding towns in Lagos.
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There are many operational problems in the port today. And the problems keep mounting by the day as there seems to be a lack of political will to tackle them
Read More Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday said that the State Government would immediately take over the ABAT Truck Terminal Orile-Iganmu and commence immediate repairs on the terminal as part of efforts to permanently address the perennial traffic in Apapa axis majorly caused by breakdown of operations at the ports.
Read More SUCCOUR will soon come the way of residents of Apapa and its environs as Petrolex Oil and Gas Limited, Africa’s emerging indigenous energy giant, is set to launch its ultra-modern tank farm facility, at Ibefun, Ogun State, aimed at decongesting the perennial Apapa traffic jam by about 60 percent.
Read MoreFormer minister of Interior and Chairman of Integrated Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited, Capt. Emmanuel Iheanacho, has said that the solution to the perennial traffic gridlock in Apapa is for the Federal Government to acquire old buildings around the port town and demolish them towards redesigning of the Lagos ports.
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