First cargo plane from Europe to land at Gateway International Airport soon – Abiodun

Cargo operations are acceptable to commence astatine the Gateway International Airport wrong the adjacent 30 to 45 days, with the archetypal cargo craft from Europe expected to onshore astatine the facility.

Governor Dapo Abiodun made this known during an on-the-spot appraisal of enactment astatine the Industrial Platform, Remo Free Trade Zone, located on the Sagamu–Ijebu-Ode Expressway connected Thursday.

The Industrial Platform, Remo, is the Special Agro-Processing Zone task situated betwixt Iperu and Ilishan. Conceived toward the process extremity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the inaugural is designed to thrust agro-industrial improvement and presumption Ogun State arsenic a starring processing and export hub.

Abiodun disclosed that the entree roadworthy linking the Sagamu–Benin Expressway straight to the airdrome would soon beryllium opened to the public, describing it arsenic a captious portion of infrastructure aligned with planetary champion practices.

“This roadworthy tees disconnected from the Sagamu–Benin Expressway and leads consecutive to the airport,” the politician said. “In enactment with planetary champion practices, an airdrome roadworthy cannot beryllium winding oregon meandering; it indispensable tally consecutive from the main road to the airport. This roadworthy connects straight to the airdrome and besides passes done the processing zone, enabling radical to spot the level of enactment wrong the zone.”

He explained that the conception of...