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Port congestion * Nigeria - Any solution in sight?
For over four months now, the Lagos ports of Apapa and Tin Can Island are experiencing what has become an intractable congestion
Lagos,Nigeria -The Daily Sun, by ALBAN OPARA -February 16, 2009: -- The two ports are, at present, filled up to the brim with both ladened and empty containers. As a result, new containers cannot be discharged, while a number of ships are still awaiting berthing at the ports on the high sea... Many importers have, in an effort to seek for solutions to the problem, diverted their consignments to the neighbouring ports of Cotonou, in Benin Republic and Accra, Ghana... The situation is serious and the solution seems not to be available as all the stakeholders- the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the concessionaire companies -are all confused and do not appear to have an immediate answer to the problem... As at last weekend, more than 50 deep ocean-going vessels were recorded to be awaiting berthing space... When the Federal Government set out to concession the country’s eight sea ports about five years ago, the argument then was that a privatised port system would ensure greater efficiency in cargo delivery, lower port costs, improved facilities and generate more money for the government... A concessionaire, it was then canvassed, was a better manager of the ports than the Nigerian ports Authority (NPA), which hitherto managed the ports. Many believed this line of argument and rooted for the ports to be privatized... (Photo: Sun News Publishing) Labels: ports' congestions
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