Onitsha sea
port has become functional after it was commissioned yesterday, October 6.
Videos and photos from the scene show containers being offloaded.
According to
presidential aide Tolu Ogunlesi: "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!!"
He added:
"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 non-functional for decades and Nigerians took to Twitter to
rejoice after it was commissioned.
Below are Twitter reactions, photos and a video.
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