•Maritime workers begin strike, close eastern ports Eromosele Abiodun in Lagos and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja Truckers have within one week raised the cost to move a container from the Tin Can Island Port, Lagos, to any other part of the city by 50 per cent, from N1.2 million to N1.8 million, THISDAY checks revealed at the weekend. THISDAY had exclusively reported last week that haulage cost from Tin Can to any other part of Lagos had risen by more than 1,000 per cent from about N100,000 to about N1.2 million Barely a year ago, the cost of trucking from the Tin Can Port was about N300,000.