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W’Bank budgets N12.2bn to clear Apapa gridlock

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The World Bank is to support Nigeria’s maritime sector with N12.2bn ($40m) to help clear the traffic congestion that characterises most roads around the Nigerian Ports Authority in Apapa, Lagos, the Nigerian Shippers Council has said.

 

According to the NSC, the National Freight Information and Transport Hub, an arm of the World Bank, is working with the NPA on how the funds will be used to clear the trucks and tankers that cause heavy gridlock at Apapa, Orile, Tin Can Island and other areas around the Lagos port complex.

 

The Executive Secretary, NSC, Mr. Hassan Bello, told journalists in Abuja during a press briefing that the move was aimed at making the NPA more efficient, adding that it would also ensure that oil pipelines were used to transport petroleum products instead of tankers.

 

He said, “No matter how efficient the terminal is, if you don’t have the road to evacuate cargo, how will you move your goods out of the ports? So, there must be an intervention and in that regard, the NSC has introduced the NAFITH to the NPA. Now, the NAFITH, an international finance corporation and an arm of the World Bank, is bringing $40m to put an end to the traffic situation in Apapa.

“The fund is meant to improve logistics around the Apapa, Tin Can and Orile areas for every time there are over 5,000 trucks on that axis. But what are they doing there? What we need is about 1,500 trucks in that Apapa vicinity logistically, but you find about 5,000. So, what are the other 3,500 trucks doing? They are doing nothing!

 

“So the idea is to have an electronic passage where a truck is in Apapa only when it is needed to pick or drop cargo. The tankers too don’t need to be there for the pipelines will do the transportation of products. The moment we have the pipelines pumping to Mosimi and other flow stations, then we don’t need the tankers in Apapa. So, all these things are what the World Bank is coming to do in order to solve, once and for all, the gridlock in Apapa.”

 

Bello noted that maritime sector was a formidable source for the diversification of the Nigerian economy.

Lagos Government Begins Work On $275million Cable Car Project

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The Lagos cable car project is on course. It is privately driven and the private sector need to get all the permits.

After three years of postponement, work has begun on the $275million cable car project.

 

In an interview with The Guardian, Lagos state Commissioner for Transportation, Dayo Mobereola, revealed intricate details of the car project.

 

“The Lagos cable car project is on course. It is privately driven and the private sector need to get all the permits, on the side of Lagos, we have given them all the necessary permit, they are talking to the federal government to get some level of guarantees and we have assisted them to write to the federal government. They have taken the advantage by starting to build from the Iddo side of Lagos.”

Upon completion, the project will have eight stations in three routes, in order to handle the estimated 240,000 trips daily.

The car project will begin at Ijora, then move to Apapa and Victoria Island, with a central hub around Adeniji Adele.

Customs rakes-in N35 billion in Apapa Command

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The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has sets new monthly revenue record of N34.923 billion in the month of August 2016.

The figure, according to a statement signed by the Customs Public Relations Officer, Apapa Command, Emmanuel Ekpa, is about N8 billion higher than the N27 billion collected in July.

Ekpa said the collection record is the highest monthly-generated revenue made by any customs command in the country in the last 10 years.

Meanwhile, the Command also made a seizure of 16 containers for false declaration. It noted that investigations are ongoing over the seized containers, and arrests have been made in preparation for prosecution.

This remarkable feat is coming at a time when the ports are said to be having low volume of trade and shipping companies reported to be leaving the country in the face of some trade restrictions and high exchange rate regime.

Customs Area Controller of the Command, Willy Egbudin, however enjoined officers of the Command to continually work to redouble their efforts in maximum revenue collection, speed in legitimate trade facilitation and uncompromising enforcement of all customs laws.

Egbudin had at a recent meeting with top officers of the Command emphasised that national security must not be compromised at the port and terminals under it in the course of trade facilitation and revenue collection.

The Customs boss attributed the recent increase to increased supervision, closer monitoring and regular outreach to importers and agents on the need to comply, while issuing demand notices for infractions like under-declaration when detected.

He said: ‘’The Comptroller General’s directives are very clear on matters affecting our duties. We must not in anyway act outside the law or encourage people to do so. Importers and agents who violate the law will face the full wrath of it and I can assure you all that I will not spare any Customs Officer collaborator. Any attempt to shortchange the government under my watch here will not be treated with kid gloves.”

Petroleum Tankers To Be Relocated From Apapa To Tradefair Complex

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The Lagos state government has concluded plans to relocate the Petroleum Tankers farm in Apapa to the Tradefair complex along the Badagry expressway. The move is geared towards finding a lasting solution to the persistent traffic gridlock at Apapa caused mainly by indiscriminate parking of trucks.

Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority LASTMA, Chris Olakpe, disclosed this during an on-the-spot assessment of the Trade Fair Complex with stakeholders on Wednesday December 2nd.