Onitsha sea port has become functional after it had been commissioned yesterday, October 6.
Videos and photos from the scene show containers being offloaded.
According to presidential aide, Tolu Ogunlesi: The Plan is to maneuver containers from Lagos & Onne Ports to Onitsha by barge. For now i think 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!!
He added: So someone just acknowledged 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 non-functional for many years and Nigerians took to Twitter to rejoice after it had been commissioned.
Below are Twitter reactions, photos and a video.
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