The Federal Government is set to transfer at least 4000 unclaimed containers from the various terminals in Lagos ports to Ikorodu, in what has become an annual ritual meant to decongest the terminals.
Shipping Position Daily confirmed that already a ministerial committee, drawn from both the Ministry of transport, the Nigerian Ports Authourity (NPA) and the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) as well as some interests have been constituted and have concluded work on how to move the containers.
It was also learnt that the exercise would gulp about N200Million, which is expected to be provided by NPA, and which is expected to also supervise the transfer.
Our correspondent was told last week that the bulk of the containers are to be evacuated from the Tin Can Island Container Terminal (TICT); a terminal which has been at the receiving end of the port congestion. Specifically, it was confirmed that about 2, 500 containers are currently unclaimed at TICT. The remaining are to be ‘contributed’ by the other terminals.
Shipping Position Daily recalls that a similar exercise was carried out in 2012, when about 4500 containers were discovered to be unclaimed by their owners and transferred to Ikorodu.
The latest action is a direct response to the lamentations of terminal operators about the choking facilities at their terminals, occasioned by the refusal of consignees to take delivery of their containers months after their arrival in the country.
A member of the port decongestion committee told our correspondent last week that the exercise would soon start, ahead of the expected influx of more containers for the yuletide.
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