Thank you very much for taking me through this journey of APAPA and its axis. Although, I wasn’t there physically, but in a visual sense, it’s a fantastic journey. Thanks for posting this video.👍🏾
Be there deep sea port in Lagos or not, the express roads off Lagos are still congested with travelers carrying, expecting, or monitoring cargo; which reduces its sustainability. And one may still ask why the Lagos-Benin express way always go bad. Ports in other regions, Warri, Port Harcourt, Akwa Ibom, Calabar, ought to be patronized, and upgraded if necessary
The Lekki deep seaport is still under construction. Most times it's hard to see commercial vessels that will berth in other ports in Nigeria except Lagos. This is because of low traffic. So most private individuals are forced to use Apapa or Tincan ports. Thanks for your insights👍🏽
Yet another informative one from NedMedia. It's good to know that the rail line to Apapa is complete, if anyone knows why it hasn't commenced operations, and the expected date of commencement, please let me know. Thanks.
Thanks John 😊 The reason could be that the freight wagons haven't arrived? The ones that have arrived seems to be for bulk cargo not flat bed for containers. Also the Kajola Wagon Assembly plant is supposed to assemble wagons. We will definitely investigate further.
Look at all the trailers of goods to be dump in Nigeria. Nigeria is basically a consuming nation, hardly exporting anything....All these trailers represent the amount of factories Nigeria created in foreign countries instead of in Nigeria.
It's a nightmare, going to Oshodi from Apapa of vice versa, is a long way round Lagos. Residents set barricades inside most streets in Apapa making it look like a war zone. All in an effort to cut heavy trucks. It has taken a toll on the economy of Apapa, including night life.
@@NedMedia Thanks for all your videos. I have been following you, but i hardly comment on youtube. I will tell you the reason why there is always a terrible traffic congestion of trailers at Apapa axis. The first problem is greed: there are some people who think that if vessels are diverted to Porthacourt seaport, it will reduce the internally generated reveneu of Lagos. You mentioned the problem of low traffic as the reason why the other ports like Porthacourt/Warri are not being petronised, but that is not the reason. Do you know the number of containers that leave the Lagos seaport everyday to the eastern part of the country? Do you know the number of imported cars that leave the Lagos seaport everyday to the south east/south south geopoliticl zones? By the way, who made the rule that every imported car into Nigeria must be offloaded in Lagos? Since the same ship that offloaded these cars in Lagos is going to Porthacourt to drop some containers, why mus they be offloading cars that are going to the south east/south south geopolitical zones in Lagos, while there is a seaport at Porthacourt? Ask the federal government to make it compulsory that every container/imported car that are going to the south east/south south geopolitical zones should be offloaded in Porthacourt and see the Apapa traffic gridlock disappear overnight. I repeat, the traffic gridlock is a product of greed by those who feel that verything must be done in Lagos, so that they will collect more tax. The problem is artificially created and there is no need for that.
@@cornelius9611 Thanks Cornelius for the compliments and your insights 😊 The issue isn't straight forward, for example, in the early 2000s Onitsha businessmen were heavily shipping through Onne port until EFCC was formed, and they went after them. They fined many clearing agents billions of naira in unpaid duties. The goods they were shipping thru Onne port was contra banned garments that they simply declared as other items... Why did other businessmen stop using Onne port? That time it was very easy to get vessels going to Onne port just like Apapa or Tincan. Now if you want to ship to Onne port from China, it takes longer to get a vessel and time is money. About used cars shipped from US to Nigeria, just Google shipping companies in the US, many do not have Onne port as an option. They mostly go to Tincan RORO. Short term solution: Businessmen in Onitsha and Aba should start using Onne port again, with time it will start booming again like it did before.
@@NedMedia inland terminals are littered every where in Lagos but there are still congestion.so the customs should route more vessels to other parts of the country and the containers going to the north should not be cleared in Lagos but quickly evacuated by rail to the dry ports up north and cl cleared there
The freight trains need to start running already to ease the traffic nightmare 😩 Like & subscribe😊👍🏽
Thank you very much for taking me through this journey of APAPA and its axis. Although, I wasn’t there physically, but in a visual sense, it’s a fantastic journey. Thanks for posting this video.👍🏾
Thanks Harry for the compliments 😊
Be there deep sea port in Lagos or not, the express roads off Lagos are still congested with travelers carrying, expecting, or monitoring cargo; which reduces its sustainability. And one may still ask why the Lagos-Benin express way always go bad.
Ports in other regions, Warri, Port Harcourt, Akwa Ibom, Calabar, ought to be patronized, and upgraded if necessary
The Lekki deep seaport is still under construction. Most times it's hard to see commercial vessels that will berth in other ports in Nigeria except Lagos. This is because of low traffic. So most private individuals are forced to use Apapa or Tincan ports. Thanks for your insights👍🏽
Yet another informative one from NedMedia.
It's good to know that the rail line to Apapa is complete, if anyone knows why it hasn't commenced operations, and the expected date of commencement, please let me know.
Thanks.
Thanks John 😊 The reason could be that the freight wagons haven't arrived? The ones that have arrived seems to be for bulk cargo not flat bed for containers. Also the Kajola Wagon Assembly plant is supposed to assemble wagons. We will definitely investigate further.
@@NedMedia Thanks for the information.
Look at all the trailers of goods to be dump in Nigeria. Nigeria is basically a consuming nation, hardly exporting anything....All these trailers represent the amount of factories Nigeria created in foreign countries instead of in Nigeria.
How do residents of Apapa cope with this kind of blockage everywhere...
It's a nightmare, going to Oshodi from Apapa of vice versa, is a long way round Lagos. Residents set barricades inside most streets in Apapa making it look like a war zone. All in an effort to cut heavy trucks. It has taken a toll on the economy of Apapa, including night life.
@@NedMedia Thanks for all your videos. I have been following you, but i hardly comment on youtube. I will tell you the reason why there is always a terrible traffic congestion of trailers at Apapa axis. The first problem is greed: there are some people who think that if vessels are diverted to Porthacourt seaport, it will reduce the internally generated reveneu of Lagos. You mentioned the problem of low traffic as the reason why the other ports like Porthacourt/Warri are not being petronised, but that is not the reason. Do you know the number of containers that leave the Lagos seaport everyday to the eastern part of the country? Do you know the number of imported cars that leave the Lagos seaport everyday to the south east/south south geopoliticl zones? By the way, who made the rule that every imported car into Nigeria must be offloaded in Lagos? Since the same ship that offloaded these cars in Lagos is going to Porthacourt to drop some containers, why mus they be offloading cars that are going to the south east/south south geopolitical zones in Lagos, while there is a seaport at Porthacourt? Ask the federal government to make it compulsory that every container/imported car that are going to the south east/south south geopolitical zones should be offloaded in Porthacourt and see the Apapa traffic gridlock disappear overnight. I repeat, the traffic gridlock is a product of greed by those who feel that verything must be done in Lagos, so that they will collect more tax. The problem is artificially created and there is no need for that.
@@cornelius9611 Thanks Cornelius for the compliments and your insights 😊
The issue isn't straight forward, for example, in the early 2000s Onitsha businessmen were heavily shipping through Onne port until EFCC was formed, and they went after them. They fined many clearing agents billions of naira in unpaid duties. The goods they were shipping thru Onne port was contra banned garments that they simply declared as other items... Why did other businessmen stop using Onne port? That time it was very easy to get vessels going to Onne port just like Apapa or Tincan.
Now if you want to ship to Onne port from China, it takes longer to get a vessel and time is money.
About used cars shipped from US to Nigeria, just Google shipping companies in the US, many do not have Onne port as an option. They mostly go to Tincan RORO.
Short term solution: Businessmen in Onitsha and Aba should start using Onne port again, with time it will start booming again like it did before.
Have they stopped construction? why does the road still look like that? i thought they said they have almost completed the road.
You don see am na Lagondo. They've not finished some sections, but work is going on.
@@NedMedia You should drive around EKO atlantic city, i want to see how big the place is i heard its bigger than FESTAC town, is that true?
Until the freight train starts. There will be problems
The tincan second gate is still a nightmare.years after so many remedies
Absolutely more inland terminals are needed and a railway should also connect Tincan.
@@NedMedia inland terminals are littered every where in Lagos but there are still congestion.so the customs should route more vessels to other parts of the country and the containers going to the north should not be cleared in Lagos but quickly evacuated by rail to the dry ports up north and cl cleared there
Apapa wahala too much