“It is a fully automated Port”-MD, NPA

A lot has been said about the Lekki Deep Sea Port, LDSP.

According to the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Mohhamed Bello-Koko, the Lekki Deep sea Port has all the features, structures and facilities that any modern sea port could boast of.

Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko (4th left), Chief Executive Officer, Lekki Freeport Terminal, Yann Magarian (5th left), Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Adenrele .S. Adesina (3rd left), Exec, Dir., Marine and Operations, Hon. Onari Brown (5th right), Executive Director, Lekki Port, Adesuwa Ladoja (4th right) and other officials of the Lekki Port during a working visit to the management of NPA at the corporate headquarters in Lagos recently.

Media source have quoted the NPA boss severally on what to expect at the Lekki Port:

“As you know, the Lekki Deep Seaport has been in the brain box for over 10 years; it is this administration that came in and gave all the necessary support through the Ministry of Transportation and the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA)”.

“They have done the test run on all the necessary equipment, they have done their recruitments, people have been training and the vessels have started coming in, at least, we have had  vessels calling at the port as we expect full swing commercial activities

“Business has started actually in Lekki Deep Sea Port. So, everything is ready and it is going to be automated as we said and all the gaps we observed either in Tincan Island Port or Apapa Port, whether in terms of scanners, equipment and others, you will find all of them in Lekki,’’

On the game-changer status of the Lekki Deep Seaport, the NPA boss explained that, unlike the two weeks, it takes for cargo clearing at Apapa port in Lagos, at Lekki it would be in a matter of days for cargo to be cleared’

maritime stakeholders are hoping and watching to see these postulations actualized.