By Kasim Sumaina in Abuja

The federal government has disclosed that the Kaduna Inland Dry Port, an erstwhile inland container depot upgraded to the status of an Inland Dry Port (IDP), has started receiving containers for clearance. In effect, the Kaduna IDP is a port of origin for export.

The government, through the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Mr. Hassan Bello, gave this hint, while delivering an address at the 2018 second quarter meeting of Public Private Partnership Unit Consultative Forum (3PUCF) in Abuja.

According to Bello, “I am really happy to inform this forum that the Kaduna IDP has started receiving containers for clearance. In effect, the Kaduna IDP is a port of origin for export cargo and final destination for import cargo.”

Bello disclosed that, the advantages of having the Kaduna IDP and other IDPs to be delivered very soon cannot be over emphasised.

He said: “One is bringing shipping closer to shippers in the hinterland. Since the creation of PPP Unit in the Nigerian Shippers’ Council in January, 2015, many projects have been initiated which are currently at various stages of delivery.

“An update on our projects, I believe will be presented in the course of your deliberations. You are no doubt aware that some of our PPP projects are already being delivered.

“This pilot facilities management PPP is especially significant for our national PPP agenda, because one; it gives us another opportunity to demonstrate that government’s PPP agenda is designed to accommodate Nigerian businesses; and two; it opens another vista in the commitment of the Buhari administration to engender collaboration between the public and private sector and improve social and economic life in the country through functional and well managed infrastructure assets.”

Furthermore, he said: “Nigeria infrastructure needs is critical and there is no gainsaying that PPP is the way to go in delivering projects for the benefits of the people.”

Bello, represented by the Deputy Director, Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Abuja Liason Office, Mr. Ekpeyong Eke, added that “in January this year, President Mohammadu Buhari GCFR, commissioned the Kaduna Inland Dry Port, an erstwhile inland container depot upgraded to the status of an Inland Dry Port (IDP), an initiative of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, with the combined effort of ICNL Limited, Kaduna State Government and guided through the PPP process by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC).”

On the issue of the endemic traffic gridlock in Apapa, he stated that, “it’s a challenge that should not only be to maritime agencies but to us all.

“The Nigerian Shippers’ Council Truck Transit Parks (TTPs) project, or more precisely, Truck Holding Bays, with Electronic Call Up System is one of a combination of solutions that can address the situation. Intelligent Traffic Management System is another. These can be delivered by way of PPP without putting a strain on government finances.

“Regrettably, PPPs is fraught with several challenges notably bureaucratic and lengthy process for land allocation by state governments. We shall however, not rest on our oars. We are continuously engaging with all relevant stakeholders to fast track the projects and we have no doubt that these projects would be delivered in not too distant future.”

Source: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/07/28/kaduna-dry-port-begins-container-clearance/amp/

Very good, for all you southerners supporting APC federal government, you have been used and dumped, you will now travel north to clear your containers if you like. Keep voting APC, one day you all might need travel to the north first before you eat.

Sai El Rufia.

Hope the containers will be adequately checked for content

Sprumbabafather:


Very good, for all you southerners supporting APC federal government, you have been used and dumped, you will now travel north to clear your containers if you like. Keep voting APC, one day you all might need travel to the north first before you eat.

Mehn!! will any sane human believe a human being with any grey matter in his skull thought up this nonsense and wrote it down for the entire world to read? Is this also a part of opposition politics? or you're truly and really an illiterate?

kaorama:
Hope the containers will be inadequately checked for content

Why should they?

The people there are humble and kind, its only Igbos we fear.

Customs is there already. Who did u think is checking the goods?

kaorama:
Hope the containers will be adequately checked for content

kaorama:
Hope the containers will be inadequately checked for content

Should be ''adequately''

pic or idonbelieve

Sprumbabafather:


Very good, for all you southerners supporting APC federal government, you have been used and dumped, you will now travel north to clear your containers if you like. Keep voting APC, one day you all might need travel to the north first before you eat.

Did you read the post at all?

I hope this is not a way to clear Codein n tramadol.

Kaduna that has no major water body has a refinery and now a dry port.
But Onitsha that has a major water body River Niger that connects it with Delta state don't deserve any port.
It's alright.
He that holds a man down holds himself - CHINUA ACHEBE

Sprumbabafather:


Very good, for all you southerners supporting APC federal government, you have been used and dumped, you will now travel north to clear your containers if you like. Keep voting APC, one day you all might need travel to the north first before you eat.

??

Amarabae:
Kaduna that has no major water body has a refinery and now a dry port.
But Onitsha that has a major water body River Niger that connects it with Delta state don't deserve any port.
It's alright.
He that holds a man down holds himself - CHINUA ACHEBE

Onitsha port is ready for use. It will soon be inaugurated.

Amarabae:
Kaduna that has no major water body has a refinery and now a dry port.
But Onitsha that has a major water body River Niger that connects it with Delta state don't deserve any port.
It's alright.
He that holds a man down holds himself - CHINUA ACHEBE

What do you call this? Fishing port?

The Onitsha port has been concessioned and should be ready this year. They havent announced the concessionaire yet for some reason.

Ps: dont be surprised if the guy that runs Kaduna dry port runs Onitsha. I read he bid on it.

Amarabae:
Kaduna that has no major water body has a refinery and now a dry port.
But Onitsha that has a major water body River Niger that connects it with Delta state don't deserve any port.
It's alright.
He that holds a man down holds himself - CHINUA ACHEBE

Blue3k2:
The Onitsha port has been concessioned and should be ready this year. They havent announced the concessionaire yet for some reason.

Ps: dont be surprised if the guy that runs Kaduna dry port runs Onitsha. I read he bid on it.

Onitsha port has been concession to two individuals. They are yet to receive official certificate that is why they refused to disclosed the name. Once they receive it u will know them.

The North is a desert inhabited by animals. Buhari is an animal

The reason it is called Inland Dry Port.

Amarabae:
Kaduna that has no major water body has a refinery and now a dry port.
But Onitsha that has a major water body River Niger that connects it with Delta state don't deserve any port.
It's alright.
He that holds a man down holds himself - CHINUA ACHEBE

What a waste of sperm⤵

Sprumbabafather:


Very good, for all you southerners supporting APC federal government, you have been used and dumped, you will now travel north to clear your containers if you like. Keep voting APC, one day you all might need travel to the north first before you eat.

If we remain an indivisible entity, In the next couple of decades we gonna clinch the title of undisputed 3rd most populous nation,

As at the moment, we already clinked our glasses toasting to the ground breaking record of having the highest number of millions plunged into the red line of poverty.

How prepared are we to reverse the gear, ? ? ?

If we don't push the right buttons now, then:

The congestion in the major cities right now, gonna be a tip of the iceberg, the HDI lows gonna be exacerbated, the illeratercy, life expectancy, poverty lows gonna be aggravated, the strife and killings gonna be multiplied,

We need these infrastructures this minute, and much more, more, more and more.

The ports of origin complement the ports of destinations, the inland waterways in our country is utterly underutilized,

If we must break even, and make headway, then security gonna be the hallmark of its success,

What is success, without the seed needed to be sucked? suck - seed, as in ( "succ-seed" ) = SUCCEED lols

Would love to see hubs of interconnectivity and logistics base, barges carrying bits of cargo contents, into the hinterlands, while rail interconnectedness aids mobility of goods, To and Fro the inland dryport,

More productivity,
More interconnectivity,
More opportunities,
More Accessibility,
More, more more we needs 'em mores.


Cargo airports,
Inland dryports,
Rail ways,
Roads,
Power plants,
Seaports,
River ports,
Depots of all myriads,


More notably for the onitsha river port,and other likely projects of such involving bipod /tripods of ppp, the concessionaires, got to be worth their onion, for the sake of functionality and sustainability.

Any bidder that wins, and underpeforms abysmally, should be repudiated,infact the concession should be overhauled if need be, we should stop taking prisoners henceforth.

This is an avenue for those aboki and APC apologetic supporters to start shouting "sai baba" upandan

Amarabae:
Kaduna that has no major water body has a refinery and now a dry port.
But Onitsha that has a major water body River Niger that connects it with Delta state don't deserve any port.
It's alright.
He that holds a man down holds himself - CHINUA ACHEBE

...Onitsha...doesn't...

What happened to Onitsha
?

Sprumbabafather:


Very good, for all you southerners supporting APC federal government, you have been used and dumped, you will now travel north to clear your containers if you like. Keep voting APC, one day you all might need travel to the north first before you eat.

there are so many federal projects situated in the south ! Just admit you can’t be happy at anything this government does ! Bad belle will eventually kill you !

Get to it there's already over 3000 trucks blocking roads in lagos.

Truck Holding Bays, with Electronic Call Up System is one of a combination of solutions that can address the situation. Intelligent Traffic Management System is another. 

Provided it creates employment opportunities it is good....


I hope the south opens their eyes wide and ensure soap dont enter into their eyes even when they are in Water....

ddd

Shukuakukobambi:




Mehn!! will any sane human believe a human being with any grey matter in his skull thought up this nonsense and wrote it down for the entire world to read? Is this also a part of opposition politics? or you're truly and really an illiterate?

he was being sarcastic. Where is your sense 9f humour? Smh

Sprumbabafather:


Very good, for all you southerners supporting APC federal government, you have been used and dumped, you will now travel north to clear your containers if you like. Keep voting APC, one day you all might need travel to the north first before you eat.

You and all who liked your comment are dumber than rocks.

Did you even read the OP with understanding at all?

This is like a retrogressive intelligence levels at work in you and those who liked your comment.

Appalling!

Sprumbabafather:


Very good, for all you southerners supporting APC federal government, you have been used and dumped, you will now travel north to clear your containers if you like. Keep voting APC, one day you all might need travel to the north first before you eat.

You are Igbo so I'm not surprised