Onitsha sea port has been commissioned, as such, the port is now functional as videos and images showing containers being offloaded in the port have emerged.
While talking about the port’s revival, Presidential Aide, Tolu Ogunlesi said: “The Plan is to move containers from Lagos & Onne Ports to Onitsha by barge. For now I believe what’s being done is testing. You need to do a pilot first, assess efficiency, do troubleshooting etc, before you roll out full operations. But if it works as planned it’s gon be a BFD!!”
While talking further, he said: “So someone just pointed out to me that on the Maersk website,Onitsha is now available as a port of final destination. A vessel departing Shanghai Oct 10 (this Sat) has Onitsha listed as terminal port (arrival Dec 2, 2020).”
The Onitsha sea port has been dormant for decades and with this new development, Apapa Port’s traffic will be eased and businessmen in South East and other adjoining regions can breathe a sigh of relief as cost of transporting imported good from Lagos has been eliminated.
