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• Freight Forwarders blame stoppage of container stripping, barge operations • 44 ships expected in Lagos in December No fewer than 43 vessels laden with various goods are currently stuck in Lagos waters as congestion stalls operations at Nigeria’s busiest ports, the TinCan Island Port and Apapa Port in Lagos. The nation’s import and export dealing is, also, in shambles, as prevailing congestion at ports caused a spike in shipping costs for Nigeran-bound goods by about 600 per cent. The situation has thrown port operators at TinCan and Apapa ports into a state of confusion as containe...

The Frontlines By Joseph Ushigiale Who are the sole beneficiaries of the current revenue drive being enforced by the Presidential Task Force on Ports Decongestion and Easing Apapa Gridlock? The question has become pertinent because whoever is vested with the responsibility of supervising the task force, if he is not the sole beneficiary, ought to know by now that the task force has since outlived its usefulness and it is now operating beyond its brief extorting various sums ranging from N50,000 to N200,000 to grant access to port users. To maximum its profiteering, it has also resorted to ill...

•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.

Extortion: NPA, NSC Appear Helpless As Haulage Cost At Tin Can Port Hits N1.8m By The Nigeria Voice Listen to article Truckers have jerked up their costs by 50% from N1.2million to N1.8million within one week to move a container from the Tin Can Island Port, Lagos to any other part of the city, as extortion by security officials on the port access road continues unabated. Barely a year ago, cost of trucking from the Tin Can Port was about N300,000. The haulage cost from Tin Can Port is now three times the cost of haulage from the Apapa Port, which has remained at N600,000 since the beginnin...