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include 3 warehouses with an area of 3,025 m and an unpaved open yard for temporary storage of goods. The port, operated by APM Terminals, has implemented electronic procedures such as fixed berth windows, real-time transparency of transactions, performance reviews, technical assistance, real-time invoicing and container tracking.
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space caused the port to further lead in cargo handling and by the end of 1966, it handled a cargo load of 1.9 million tonnes. After the second extension, the land area of the wharf was about 100 hectares with the ability to handle twenty loading or discharging vessels at a time. A third extension along the
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The port covers more than 80 hectares and has a four-wheeled gate with a height of eight metres for receiving oversized cargoes. It has two logistics centres that include bonded warehouses and terminal buildings. There are five private terminals in the Lagos Port
Complex. These specialised facilities
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Beginning in 1956, the newly formed NPA began to expand the number of berths within the complex, adding an additional six berthing space. This extension of the wharf was completed in 1961. A second extension was completed during the first national development plan between 1962 and 1968. The increased
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owned and administered operations in Lagos Port
Complex from 1956 until it was concessioned in 2005. During this period most of the services within the port were performed by NPA with the exception of stevedoring and manufacturing. In 2005, the complex was divided into multiple terminals and sold to
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The port's container terminal covers an area of 55 hectares and has a total quay length of 1,005 metres. It has an annual container capacity of over 1,000,000 TEU and 298 reefer connections. 13 mobile harbour cranes and 14 rubber-tyred cranes are used for loading and unloading. The storage areas
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to facilitate access to ocean going vessels, in 1913, the engineering works were completed and ocean going shipping vessels had access to the Lagos harbour. In 1919, a 180-foot wharf was extended to Apapa, a location that had been decided will be the terminus for the
Western railway. In 1926,
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otherwise as
Customs wharf in the shipment of export goods. Between 1928 and 1929, it handled 201,307 tonnes of exports goods, and between 1937 and 1938, Apapa wharf handled about 370,000 tonnes of cargo, in 1953, it handled close to 700,000 tonnes. After the end of World War II, additional
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was completed in 1926, it was envisioned that a large amount of traffic would be by rail. However, as the port grew and trucks became the preferred means of transporting goods to and from the port, traffic gridlock caused by trucks parking on the roadside became a regular occurrence.
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of land for ground facilities such as passenger terminals, cargo sheds and custom facilities. During this period, control of the port complex was diffused, the Marine department was in charge of maintaining passage, storage and berthing of ships, private shipping firms performed
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largest and busiest port complex. The complex consist of a number of facilities including Apapa quays, Third Apapa Wharf
Extension, Apapa Dockyard, Apapa Petroleum Wharf, Bulk Vegetable Oil Wharf,
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Obafemi; Raji, B. A. (April 2017). "Analysis of Seaport Productivity in Pre and Post Concession Periods in Nigeria. a Study of Apapa Port".
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with Lagos as the main terminus, thereafter, a need arose for a facility to load and discharge goods in either direction of
Western Nigeria and the
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is handled at the 150m Ijora facility. Lagos Port also has four tank farms for the storage of refined petroleum products.
522:(December 2, 2018 Sunday). Apapa: Travails of a former Government Reserved Area. Nigerian Tribune. Retrieved from Nexis
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creek was completed in 1979. The authorities created facilities for loading and discharging bulk cement and grains.
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