NPA To Invest $1.1b To Rehabilitate Decaying Ports Infrastructure At TinCan, Apapa And Others

To improve the efficiency of existing ports in Nigeria, Federal Government, through Nigerian Ports Authority will be investing $1.1 billion to fully rehabilitate decaying port infrastructure at TinCan, Apapa, Rivers, Delta, Calabar and Onne ports.

NPA disclosed this in a statement on Monday on the authority’s X handle and said some of these ports were built a century ago and haven’t been rebuilt since then.

The statement further read, due to the decaying quay walls, the Terminal Operators are unable to deploy modern cargo handling equipment such as ship-to-shore cranes 🏗️. This often results in high turn around times of vessels.

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The rehabilitation will includes:

— Tin-Can Island Port Complex (TCIPC)
Reconstruction of 2, 563m Quay Wall & Pavement including other works.

— Lagos Port Complex (Apapa Quays)
Reconstruction of 2,020m Quay wall to replace the old gravity wall (Berths 4-14).

— Warri, Delta State
Rehabilitation of collapsed 8.6 km Escravos Breakwaters.

— FLT 2, Onne Port
Reconstruction of 200m Quay Wall.

— Warri Old Port (Terminal C) Reconstruction of 80m sheet pile wall structure.

— Warri Old Port (Terminal A) Reconstruction of 280m quay structure.

— Calabar Dockyard
Rehabilitation of the Calabar Dockyard.

— Mciver Jetty, Calabar Port Jetty reconstruction.

— Millero Jetty, Calabar Port
Jetty Reconstruction.

When this is completed, the existing ports will be operational at full capacity and with improved efficiency, thereby reducing the TAT of vessels and cargo dwell times.