Tag: TinCan Island Ports

Ports and Airports

Tincan Island Port records N489.2bn in 2023 exported goods

The Tincan Island Port Command of the Nigeria Customs Service recorded a notable growth in goods exports, reaching N489.2 billion in 2023, a significant increase over the previous year. Area Comptroller, Dera Nnadi announced this during a news conference in Lagos, crediting the success to the Enforcement and Anti-smuggling Unit, which led to 96 detentions and 47 […]

Onne Port records vessel traffic surge, says NPA
Ports and Airports

NPA seeks further PPP deals for renovation of TinCan Port

The Nigerian Port Authority announced that it is looking for more Public Private Partnership to fix up the infrastructure at Tincan Island Port. According to Nairametrics, this was revealed on Thursday by the Managing Director of NPA, Mr. Mohammed Bello-Koko, at the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria Breakfast Meeting with the theme ‘Rehabilitation of Tin Can […]

Maritime

TinCan port reflects decades of neglect, says FG

The Nigerian Government has lamented the poor state of the TinCan Island seaport, concluding that it has shown decades of neglect. The Minister of State for Transportation, Gbemisola Saraki,  made this known after carrying out a ministerial tour of the Lagos ports on Monday. Accrording to The PUNCH, Saraki also called on the need for […]

Transportation

Poor rail connections, others increase gridlock in Apapa– Experts

Experts have blamed poor rail connections, proliferation of tank farms and monomodal means of cargo evacuation from the ports as major causes of the perennial traffic gridlock on the Apapa ports axis. At a discussion on a social media platform in Lagos, an Assistant General Manager, Nigerian Ports Authority, Ahmed Wanka, explained that the initial […]