Construction work to begin on Ogun Deep Sea Port in November – Abiodun

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has disclosed that operation enactment connected the implicit $7 cardinal Gateway Deep Sea Port and Ogun State Blue Marine Special Economic Zone successful Ogun Waterside Local Government Area volition commence successful November this year.

Abiodun made the disclosure portion addressing All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders successful Ijebu East and Ijebu North Local Government Areas, days aft signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DP World MEA FZE successful Paris, France, successful the beingness of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The politician said the groundbreaking ceremonial for the task would instrumentality spot successful November, aft which operation would commence immediately, with the larboard expected to beryllium substantially completed wrong 2 and a fractional years.

“By November, we volition execute the groundbreaking and the operation volition commencement immediately. In 2 and a fractional years, that larboard volition astir beryllium completed 100 per cent,” Abiodun said.

He said the project, to beryllium undertaken successful concern with DP World, 1 of the world’s large larboard operators, represented a important accidental to unlock Ogun State’s maritime and economical potential.

According to him, the larboard task had remained mostly unrealised for much than 3 decades contempt its tremendous potential, prompting his medication t...