IN a bid to decongest the Lagos area ports, the Federal Government is set to transfer over 4000 unclaimed containers from the various terminals in Lagos ports to Ikorodu.
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It has been confirmed that already an Inter Ministerial Committee, drawn from both the Ministry of transport, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) as well as some interests in the maritime sector has been constituted and has concluded plans on how to move the containers.
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It was also learnt that the exercise would gulp about N200 million, which is expected to be provided by NPA, and is expected to also supervise the transfer.
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It has been gathered 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.
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Specifically, it was confirmed that about 2, 500 containers are currently unclaimed at TICT. Others are from other terminals.
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It will be recalled that a similar exercise was carried out in 2012, when about 4,500 containers were discovered to be unclaimed by their owners and transferred to Ikorodu.