Containers and oil tankers bound for northern Nigeria, will
from Tuesday, May 7, begin moving goods from the Lagos ports through the newly
acquired railway wagons to the dry port in Kaduna.
The minister of transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi had ordered some wagons for the Lagos-Ibadan railway for the purpose.
The measure is designed to ease the gridlock caused by heavy-duty vehicles on Lagos roads.
Similarly, to curb the perennial traffic jam on the Apapa axis, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) resolved to deploy the eighteen newly imported wagons for haulage from Apapa seaport.
The managing director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr. Fidet Okhiria, said in an interview that the newly acquired 18 wagons are to boost the inland container dry port business by moving cargos from Apapa seaport to dry ports in Kaduna and other states.
He said the corporation has the capacity to evacuate 20-footer and 40-footer containers from Apapa Port to Ijoko and Abeokuta in Ogun State and Omi-Adio rail depots in Oyo State for onward transfer by parked trucks.
The trucks would evacuate the containers by road to their various destinations which most often are either the inland dry port in Kaduna or Kano.
