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| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by eminikansoso(m): 12:37pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
tobtap:That is it my brother you can not expect industrialization in a region where there is over reliance on one product called OIL. 4 Likes |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by baby124: 12:47pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
Security is the biggest reason why. Let's face the fact that security wise SE and SS are the worst for the rich businessman or woman. With the indiscriminate kidnappings and senseless killings of the wealthy. Begin to think of making the rehion's liveable and holding your leaders to a high standard when it comes to development. Trust me, that will drive any economy, new ports and progress faster than you can imagine. You want ports and people to move back to the region, yet you support asari and uwazuruike. Which one do you want? Pick a struggle 5 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by huptin(m): 12:58pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
redcap: Ok now i understand you, there must be a cogent reason why it cost 2ce as much to clear goods @ Onne than Lagos but i dont know the reason |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by Deltagiant: 1:16pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
WHY EASTERN PORTS ARE LYING FALLOW on September 26, 2013 / in Sports 8:15 pm / Comments By Jude Njoku GOING to Apapa from any part of Lagos is akin to travelling through the biblical “valley of the shadow of death.” The reason for this description is not far-fetched. Apapa is home to the nation’s busiest seaports, hence the traffic snarl on virtually all the roads leading into and out of the town. It is commonplace to find heavy-duty trailers and articulated vans stuck on the highway for several hours, thereby impeding the free flow of traffic in that axis. In fact, the traffic jam along the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, has been directly linked to the congestion in both the Apapa and Tin-Can ports. Vanguard learnt that the congestion is a fallout of the snail-speed offloading of containers by the port terminal operators and acute shortage of space for the trucks to park while waiting to discharge their consignments. The irony is that while the Lagos ports are heavily congested with ships queuing to get port calls to berth, the eastern ports are lying fallow due to little or no patronage. Apart from the Port at Onne in RiversState, the other seaports located at Port Harcourt, Calabar, Warri and Koko are, mildly put, existing only in name. Another irony is that most importers who make use of the Lagos Ports have their businesses in the South South and South East geo-political zones. Stakeholders in the maritime industry who spoke to Vanguard laid most of the blame for the under-utilization of the eastern ports on the corridors of the Federal Government and the foreign shipping lines. The government is said to have rolled out policies that have directly and indirectly stiffled the operations of eastern ports. Concessioning of ports Prior to the concessioning of ports to private operators in 2006, the Federal Government gave up to 30 percent discount as incentives to shipping companies willing to use the eastern ports. Most of these shipping companies jumped at the bait and the result was a boom in the operations at the eastern ports. But this incentive was withdrawn after the concession. To make things worse, the freight charged for using the eastern ports was hiked. Stakeholders who spoke to Vanguard in Port Harcourt recently alleged that these measures were deliberate because the Government wanted to give undue advantage to the western ports. Operator’s perspective: The Managing Director of Ports & Terminal Operators (Nigeria) Limited, the concessionaire to the premier seaport in Port-Harcourt, Mrs Lizzie Ovbude enumerated some of the constraints the concessionaires are grappling with. She said, “I know that when NPA was still the master sea dock, to improve traffic in the eastern flank, NPA had to give about 30 percent discount. That was some years back, before the concessioning. They gave about 30 percent discount to vessels that are willing to come to the eastern ports. That was a kind of encouragement to enable vessels to come to this part of the country. But after the concessioning, there has been no such encouragement.” She alleged that there is a conspiracy by ship owners to stifle the operations of the ports in Port-Harcourt. Her words: ”For Port HarcourtPort, I don’t know whether it is a kind of conspiracy from ship owners; you know that the shipping industry is dominated by foreigners. They own the vessels. I do know that we have done a lot of marketing campaigns from Port Harcourt Ports here. We have been to clients at Enugu, Aba, Onitsha, Nnewi, that is the eastern flank who import through Lagos and made them know that we are actually back. They have shown a lot of interest but one issue we have always had is the vessels to bring such cargo, that is, containerized vessels. “Before now, we had reached an agreement with two shipping lines who agreed to come and as we were doing the marketing campaign, they suddenly withdrew their vessels. And you know, when you have been to a client once, twice and they are showing interest and suddenly everything goes that way, they will not take you seriously anymore. That is what the shipping companies have made us look like. And up until now, we still have clients that have been calling, making enquires on vessels that could come… Containerised vessels They are all foreign ship owners and if they say they are not coming, we cannot force them to come. And that is why you see a lot of importers go to Lagos and begin to truck their cargo down.” Although Mrs Ovbude agreed that the channels in Port-Harcourt Port 1 are not big enough for containerized vessels to berth, he listed efforts made by her company to expand the draught to enable moderately bi vessels to come in. He was pissed by the fact that the Federal Government is not doing anything to dredge the port to pave the way for containerized vessels to come to the oldest seaport in the eastern part of the country. “They complain about channels but I want to say that even though ships have grown bigger and they want to take comparative advantage of bigger vessels because your cost on a bigger vessel is the same as your cost on a smaller vessel. If you have a bigger vessel that will bring much cargo, you will spread your cost and it becomes lower than when you take a smaller vessel that will bring small cargo, small tonnage; your cost goes higher when you spread it on small tonnage cargo. That is an issue, the non-dredging of the channels, the non-dredging of the ports. That is why I said from the beginning that I may not be able to tell you all the constraints because I will talk from the perspective of a port operator but freight forwarders will have their own issue. If you go into the terminal, you will see the extensions we did to be able to achieve a deeper draught to allow for at least moderately sized vessels to come.. At a point, the facilities became very dilapidated and operations went down. We have also been marketing, telling our clients that the port is no longer what it used to be. We have made it operational once again. When the facilities went down, there were no plants. Today, we have bought kalmar container handling equipment and so the equipment to operate efficiently are there. Deeper level draught The stacking area is there, the berths have been improved because we have extended into the water to achieve some deeper level of draught. Government will need to do something and what government needs to do is, the type of encouragement they gave to shipping companies a few years back, they need to bring it once again,” she canvassed. Another issue which the PTOL boss would want the government to look into is the alleged monopoly granted to INTELS Services, the concessionaire for the Onne ports, to handle oil and gas related cargo. “We have been trying to tackle it in the most legitimate manner we think it can be tackled. We have taken the issue to the National Assembly; there has been a public hearing on it and that is the issue of oil and gas related cargo. INTELS still claims that they are the only ones that have the right to handle oil and gas related cargo. The National Assembly has said that in as much as we are a multi-purpose terminal and the lease agreement we signed with the government has given us the right to handle general cargo, we should not be restricted. And there has been an advert from the Ministry of Transport in 2008 specifying that no terminal has monopoly of any cargo. “We are all concessioned terminals and ports and we have been given a level playing field. So, it is for us to go out and market to our clients and attract as much business as we can into our terminal. But you see, there was one circular that the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, issued which was what necessitated our taking the matter to the National Assembly. [b]Despite the fact that we were given the status of a multi-purpose terminal which means we can handle any type of cargo, NPA in the circular tried to restrict us and the National Assembly has made it clear that we cannot be restricted. But the foreign importers still fear that if they bring their ship to this place, the ship may be turned back because of that singular circular. What we have been trying to do is to educate them with the circular issued by the Ministry of Transport in 2008, the public hearing on the issue and the House of Representatives resolution that has not given any monopoly for any cargo,” she clarified. Vanguard observed that although the operator has tried to improve its berthing facilities, only a few light vessels like fish, salt and wheat vessels discharge at the ports. Rice and Cement vessels which used to come, rarely due so due to the hike on duty on the them. In fact the warehouse which was used by Dangote Cement was being dismantled when Vanguard visited the port. [/b] Freight forwarders’ perspective: Freight forwarders who reeled out the challenges facing their operations, accused the federal government of churning out policies that were deliberately targeted at strangulating operations in the eastern ports. The duo of Mr. Uche Solomon Eluagu and Chief Obi Chima told Vanguard that the disparity in freight charges has greatly impaired the operations of ports in the eastern flank. Mr. Eluagu who is the Public Relations Officer of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Onne Seaport chapter , alleged that the Federal Government is encouraging capital flight to Lagos by its deliberate policy of strangulating the eastern ports. He declared: “ The government is deliberately strangulating and frustrating the business activities in the eastern ports, thereby creating capital flight to Lagos. Let me give you a practical example. The question everybody is asking and which is begging for an answer is: “What is the rationale behind an importer who is based in Port Harcourt, Aba or Onitsha shipping his cargo to Lagos? SHARE ON TwitterFacebookGoogle+Buffer - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/eastern-ports-lying-fallow/#sthash.JHtha6HQ.dpuf |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by Super1Star: 2:06pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
How do you want vessels to go to a place where there is an increasing cases of piracy. Concessioning is a business decision and the onus lies on.the concessionaires to give the discount or incentives to ships to come to their port to offload and not the FG. 1 Like |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by Nobody: 2:28pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
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| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by Nobody: 3:09pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
^^^ What's this rubbish? |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by eminikansoso(m): 3:20pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
walexy30:ADEWALE OR OLAWALE WHY ARE YOU BEHAVING LIKE A TAUT, WE ARE DISCUSSING A NATIONAL ISSUE HERE AND YOU CAME IN AND OPEN YOUR BUCA CAVITY AND VOMITED RUBBISH |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by fkaz(m): 3:28pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
huptin: I thought Onitsha river port was commission by president Goodluck Jonathan Onitsha River Port Begins Operation 01 Sep 2012 President Goodluck Jonathan By John Iwori Following its formal commissioning by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Thursday, the multi-billion Onitsha River Port Complex, Anambra State has begun operations. Various cargo handling equipment were seen in operations as the euphoria that heralded the formal commissioning of the Onitsha River Port Complex ebbed with the departure of guests to the venues of other projects earmarked for commissioning by President Jonathan. The formal unveiling of the Onitsha River Port Complex, which is located in the commercial nerve centre of the Eastern part of the country, followed its complete rehabilitation by the Federal Government. While performing the cutting of tape ceremony, President Jonathan said the N4.6 billion River Port was unique and a signal for more things to come.
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| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by raumdeuter: 3:28pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
Why didnt you tell Jonathan who just spent 5 yrs as president If Jonathan cant complete it before May 29, then forget it 3 Likes |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by LubricatingOil: 3:39pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
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| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by baralatie(m): 4:00pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
the seaports are there.......warriors,onne,calabar,I think there is degema. the issue is a bit complicated, the business hardly patronise these seaport irrespective of pleass from customs and govt. calabar and onne are more of an export processing zone hence landing charges are more compared to tin can warri let us say it is very small you will need to convince the business to patronize inorder for these ports to grow(calculate the tendency for people to buy in the region) |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by huptin(m): 6:01pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
fkaz: It was initially commisioned by the Shagari administration, Goodluck simply recommisioned as i type full operations are yet to commence 1 Like |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by wordcat(m): 6:13pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
redcap: 5 or 6 years is enough for any sensible govt to build or maintain more than 4 seaports in any part of the country. Jonathan is WEAK and Corrupt! A golden opportunity was given to him but he wasted it. |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by wordcat(m): 6:18pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
walexy30: Yeah but a Loser today might not be a Loser tomorrow. |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by wordcat(m): 7:12pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
Deltagiant: Who are the Federal Government that's encouraging the Capital Flight to Lagos by its deliberate policy of strangulating the Eastern ports? Let's see; Goodluck Jonathan»»President, Federal Republic of Nigeria»2010 till Date» South South. Pius Anyim»»SGF, Federal Republic of Nigeria»2011 till Date»South East. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala»»Minister of Finance, Coordinating Minister A.K.A Prime Minister, Federal Republic of Nigeria»2011 till Date»»South South. Ike Ekweremadu»»Deputy Senate President, Federal Republic of Nigeria»South East. Emeka Ihedioha»»Deputy Speaker HOR, Federal Republic of Nigeria»South East Tony Anenih»»Chairman, NPA»»South South. My people, Are we not our own enemy? Easterners i.e South East & South South are their own enemies,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,And the funny thing is that we celebrate these dumbass that called themselves our representatives. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by Nobody: 7:36pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
Goddex:@bold The devilish APC? But the angelic PDP was the FG for 16yrs with nothing to show for it, na? GEJ, a SSer was there for 6yrs but didn't even think about it. Its either they didn't see any viability in the project or they just failed you guys. 5 Likes |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by abbsal(m): 9:13pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
kodded:Why will u av to say APC will not repair it,but we av a PDP president even from d south south and has not done anything about it. 2 Likes |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by kodded(m): 9:33pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
abbsal:www.nairaland.com/2174779/gradually-calabar-port-comes-alive  ? |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by Super1Star: 9:52pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
kodded: with the news in the link, you can advise your biz men to start diverting their goods to Calabar port. 2 Likes |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by kodded(m): 9:53pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
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| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by abbsal(m): 10:05pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
kodded:I hope its not part of the paper projects,cos that's during the campaign..but am sure President Elect is not a president of d APC or any tribe/region,he'll surely work accross the country. 1 Like |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by kodded(m): 10:08pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
abbsal:hmmmm are you sure ? Cause a lot of apc thugs both online and offline are boasting that buhari will pay less attention to the ss and se cause they rejected both him and his party  |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by ZKOSOSO(m): 10:14pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
Goddex: Chai!! My guy, hau faaa! U just yarn my belle! Osanobua go bless u! |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by abbsal(m): 10:20pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
kodded:Thank God u said the thugs,Buhari has said it several times that he won't be a president of any region or tribe while ur so called thugs won't be the ones to make decisions in his government. Try to go through the APC manifesto,am sure u will be convinced to love tha APC. |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by Menace2Society(m): 10:33pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
ZKOSOSO:Muppet hailing muppet Jesters!2 Likes |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by emmysoftyou: 11:48pm On Apr 13, 2015 |
wordcat:thanx for replying that fool... But yur comments just gave me hopes tonight,i swear... tanx anyway but i know yu wont understand... |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by wordcat(m): 8:34am On Apr 14, 2015 |
emmysoftyou: Thanks |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by Mapletraks: 10:57am On May 01, 2015 |
Goddex: ^^^^ @goddex You need to know before you give false information that the Eastern ports in Calabar, Onitsha, Warri, PH are NOT seaport - they are river ports that need very expensive annual dredging. This is not economically viable since there is NO destination of cargo[industrial presence-even PH river port which is much closer to the sea does NOT have major industrial or manufacturing going on for large ocean going ships to discharge and lift goods]. Those river ports were created for political purposes and are not viable. The South West are fortunate to be closer to the sea/ocean with massive industries in Ogun and Lagos States. Hopefully with Lekki Deep Sea Port and Ibaka in Ibeno coming on, the Apapa Port will be under less pressure. Lekki and Ibaka will be for large ocean vessels. I wish Akwa Ibom the best with Ibaka. |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by Mapletraks: 9:27pm On May 07, 2015 |
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| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by pazienza(m): 10:22pm On May 07, 2015 |
Sea port and industries, which comes first? Isn't this an egg- chicken scenario again. Sea ports attract industrialists who take advantage of sea port proximity to an area to establish their industries in the area. Most industries in Lagos/ Ogun axis today are there merely because of the proximity of the sea port there, the industries in turn provide employment opportunities, driving more people towards Lagos and increasing Lagos status as a mega city. The industries depend on the rest of Nigeria to buy their products, so indirectly, Lagos boom is financed by the rest of Nigeria, while the industries pay taxes to Lagos state government. Moreover, Nigeria is a consumer economy, most imports through the Lagos sea port are not raw materials for manufacturing, they are finished products ready for the market, this makes the argument of Lagos sea port being there as a result of the industries there null. Basically, the foreign industries open the headquarters of their distribution channel in Lagos,while opening small outlets in the other parts of Nigeria, these companies pay tax to Lagos state government and provide employment opportunities that drive people to Lagos. Every region needs a seaport of their own, enough of this nonsense. 1 Like |
| Re: We Need Seaports In The SE/SS by aresa: 11:00pm On May 07, 2015 |
Goddex: 15 DECEMBER 2013 Nigeria: Ibaka Deep Seaport Not in National Projects Plan - Investigation By Samson Echenim 1. The project doesn't exist, it's not in the National gazette of projects or contracts to be awarded or constructed so forget about Ibaka, there's nothing like it on anybody's book, it exists only online and in the newspapers... 2. Even though the project doesn't exist, Akpabio budgets and pockets billions every year for a non existing project, no road, no bush clearing, no fence, just Akpabio pocketing billions every year... 3. The only locally and internationally known by the maritime and air transport sectors in Africa to be implemented in Nigeria are Lekki Deep Seaport measuring 970m of container berths, 320m dry bulk berth, 1-2 oil berths and located 60km east of Lagos. The Badagry greefield port, Koko Port and Olokola Ports . My friend, instead of blaming the still not in Government APC for your calamities, blame people like Akpabio and the other crooked, corrupt and incompetent clowns ruining your miserable lives.... 1 Like |
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