Nigeria’s deepest seaport, Lekki Deep Sea Port, will conduct a test run next week, said Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu yesterday.
The trial run is a step before the $1.5 billion harbour begins to operate for profit.
In his budget speech at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Sanwo-Olu said: “We have also successfully facilitated more than $600 million in investment into the Lekki Deep Sea Port, working closely with our private and public sector partners.
“From next week, the test-running of the Lekki seaport will start. This brand-
“From next week, the test-running of the Lekki seaport will start. This brand-new port has three times the capacity of the Apapa Port and will give Lagos almost 50 per cent of the shipping logistics volumes in West Africa.”
The Lekki Deep Sea Port (Lekki Port), a multipurpose port that is spread out across 90 hectares of land in the centre of the Lagos Free Zone and 65 kilometres east of the Lagos metropolis, is regarded as one of the most advanced ports in the West African sub-region.
The port has three berths for containers, three for liquid, and one for dry bulk.
Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Limited, a special-purpose vehicle supported by the Tolaram & China Harbour Engineering Company Limited, is responsible for carrying it out. Major stakeholders in Lekki Port include the federal government and the Lagos State government.
More than 100,000 jobs are anticipated to be created by the world-class port, which will also transform how ports operate around the nation.
To the pleasure of shippers and manufacturers that rely on seaports to import raw materials and export finished goods, a top official of Lekki Port yesterday informed The Nation that the port was 100% finished and would shortly begin operations.
“Dredging and reclamation works are now 100 per cent completed. Quay wall and the Breakwater have been completed. Ditto landside infrastructure and other facilities,” the official said.
It was learned that the country’s first and largest deep water port’s proponents had donated cutting-edge machinery to support the port’s functioning as a smart port.
The top official claims that once the eagerly anticipated deep seaport is finished, the nation’s port industry would begin to operate on par with the ports of Abidjan, Lome, and Tema.
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