Nigeria needs new seaports as Lekki Port hits full capacity – Dantsoho

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Abubakar Dantsoho, has warned that Nigeria needs caller investments successful deeper seaports and cargo-handling facilities to support gait with economical growth.

Dantsoho made this known successful remarks astatine an lawsuit successful London.

His comments travel arsenic Nigeria’s rapidly expanding cargo request puts expanding unit connected existing larboard infrastructure.

According to him, the exhaustion of the Lekki Deep Sea Port’s capableness hardly 3 years aft its commissioning underscores the urgent request for further maritime infrastructure successful Nigeria.

He identified Nigeria’s increasing population, accelerated urbanisation and infrastructure deficits arsenic large factors driving request for caller larboard facilities and associated maritime services.

Dantsoho maintained that Africa’s mostly untapped maritime imaginable offers investors sizeable opportunities for semipermanent returns.

He said: “The concern needed successful ports to conscionable this enlargement and maturation tin lone hap if the requisite backstage concern is attracted and retained, which is what President Tinubu has created the enabling ambiance for.

“In Nigeria, we identified that infrastructure gap, particularly successful our ports’ development, and we realised that we indispensable bash thing quickly", helium said.

He added that improvement pres...