The Nation Newspaper Plan to decongest Lagos port through rail suffers setback
Federal Government’s plan to decongest the Lagos Port Complex at Apapa by moving 90 units of 40-foot container cargoes daily through the rail services is experiencing hitches, The Nation investigation has shown.
Cargo owners have said terminal operators made them to pay for their containers’ transfer from the quay to the rail, as the rail does not extent to the quay., which operates the cargo train, does not have the actual amount importers are supposed to pay on its website other places to access such information.
He criticised the Nigerian Shippers Council for its inability to have an acceptable price with other stakeholders before the minister was invited for the kick-off of the cargo movement from Lagos to Ibadan. This amount, Ibrahim said, includes about N100,000 to “bribe” security agents and “Area Boys” on the road while conveying the containers to their destination.
But the Lagos District Manager of the Nigerian Railway Corporation , Augustine Arisa, told reporters that “the issue of double-handling charges is always like that anywhere in the world where the track does not get to the port quay”.
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