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ICTSI will manage the container terminal of the new Nigerian port of Lekki
It will per year have traffic ability pairs to 2,5 million teu
March 14, 2012
The terminalista group Philippine International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nigerian Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise (LPLE) in order to manage the container terminal of the port of Tolaram Port@Lekki, new port of call in deep waters that is about to construction in the Lagos Trade Free Zones, near Lagos, and that it will be completed in 2016.
The understanding assigns to ICTSI the qualification of preferential operator to which assigning in sub-concession the task to equip and to manage the container terminal of the new Nigerian port on exclusive base for a period 20-year-old.
The terminal will per year have a dock of 1.200 linear meters and an ability to traffic pairs to 2,5 million container teu. The initial depth of the backdrop of the terminal will be of -14 meters with the potential one in order to dredge it to -16,5 meters.
The project Tolaram Port@Lekki is got ahead by the Nigerian Tolaram Group with the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and with the government of the State of Lagos. The entire project previews that the traffic ability container of the port goes up to six million teu. The port of call will have also docks for the liquid and solid bulk traffics.
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