Eighteen years after the Federal Government approved the development of seven Inland Dry Ports across the country, only two are operational. According to the Nigerian Shippers’ Council , the two functional IDPs are the Dala Inland Dry...
The five IDPs yet to be functional are in Heipang, Jos, with a capacity of 20,000 TEUs and 48.40 per cent completion; Erunmu, Ibadan, with a capacity of 50,000 TEUs and 10 per cent completion and Isiala Ngwa, Abia State, with a capacity of 50,000 TEUs and five per cent completion. He emphasised that completing the IDPs would alleviate congestion at the seaports and bring shipping and port services closer to importers and exporters as well as enable the states of the location to generate revenue.
Ukeyima sought the repeal of the Nigerian Shippers Council Act for the enactment of the Nigerian Shipping and Port Economic Regulatory Agency Bill, which has passed the second reading at the House of Representatives and referred to the House Committees on Shipping Services, Ports and Harbours for further action.
Eighteen years after the Federal Government approved the development of seven Inland Dry Ports across the country, only two are operational. According to the Nigerian Shippers’ Council , the two functional IDPs are the Dala Inland Dry... The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture has described as commendable the clearance of a $7 billion foreign exchange backlog by the Central Bank of Nigeria .
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