An aerial view of trucks parked on the road side waiting to get access into Tincan port in Apapa, Lagos, on January 11, 2021. - At the beginning of 2020, just before the coronavirus crisis, 99% of exports and more than 89% of imports passed through the seas, almost exclusively via Lagos. After oil, the port of Lagos, which stretches from Apapa to Tin Can island, is the second largest source of income for the African giant.
“It’s total chaos,” “a disaster,” “an absolute mess,” were some of the terms used recently by several company representatives who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity. Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital of 20 million people, is where most of the country’s goods are exported from, and imported to, feeding a market of 200 million people.
Neighbouring Togo, with only eight million people, has now become the leading container port in the region in terms of capacity.With Nigeria’s booming population, “imports are increasing each year,” said Pascale Jarrouj, commercial director of GMT Nigeria Limited, a Lagos-based logistics service provider.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)