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Lack of rail access threatens Kaduna dry port

The Port General Manager of Kaduna Inland Dry Port (KIDP), Rotimi Raimi-Hassan, has disclosed that rail access to the port, which has stopped working for some time, has increased the cost of doing business in the state. He said it was not only affecting the dry port, but also a huge cost to importers and exporters as they spent more on cargo haulage. Raimi-Hassan said the cost of moving cargo from Lagos to Kaduna was about N1 million or more, depending on market demand. He stressed that rail would reduce the cost by half. x “You can now imagine less than 50 per cent of one million spent, you can see that the remaining 50 per cent is a lot to the importers and also for the end-users, because at the end of the day, particularly the manufacturing company, they don’t joke about the material cost. If this is achieved, it will have a multiplier effect, and it enables all manufacturing companies that have been closed down in Kaduna to spring up ag

Dry ports as catalyst to economic growth

Vanguard News Dry ports as catalyst to economic growth On Kindly Share This Story: A fully loaded truck in one of the inland dry ports in the sub-region, will be delayed, harassed for bribes by the numerous security agents along the region’s transport corridor before it gets to its destination. By Martins Uba Nwamadi SOMETIME in 2005, Nigeria Shippers Council, NSC, conceptualised an idea of a dry port project in Nigeria. According to the template, Dry Ports in Asia, North America, Pakistan, UAE and some African countries have contributed tremendously to the economic growth of those countries. Armed with statistics and intimidating profile, the management of Nigerian Shippers’ Council made a robust presentation to the Federal Executive Council urging the Federal Government to approve the establishment of Inland Container Depots otherwise called Dry Port in some specific locations of the country.

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