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Project of APM Terminals for the construction of a great port in Nigeria
the initiative is got ahead by a consortium in which figure also the terminalista society Terminal Investment Limited of group MSC
November 20, 2012
Terminalista society APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has announced to have introduced, with a consortium of partner constituted from the terminalista society Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) that the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC is under responsibility of), from the financial institution Orlean Invest, the energetic group Oando, the industrial group Nigerian Chagoury and the financial institution Macquarie Bank, a project for the realization of a great marine port and a Trade Free Zones to Badagry, in the State of Lagos, in Nigeria, with the objective to make of one of the main ports Africans.
The plan previews the construction of a port of call with seven kilometers of docks and areas per thousand destined hectares to all the types of traffic of the goods, let alone to the activities of support to the industry of the oil and the gas, included a terminal for barges. Nella Free Trade Zone would come moreover constructed a power station, a refinery, an industrial area and a logistic area.
The consortium previews that the concession contract will come undersigned the next January and that the work will be started in October 2013 in order to complete before the three phases of the project in 2016. In charge of APM Terminals for Africa and the Middle East, Peder Sondergaard, it has announced that the society is already working with the state and federal authorities of Nigeria in order to complete the procedures of authorization of the project.
Remembering that last year the containerized trade enlivened from the Nigerian ports has been pairs to 1,4 million teu and that currently about 85% of all the not oil traffic goods of Nigeria passes through the port of Lagos, APM Terminals has emphasized that the current ability to traffic of the container of the Nigerian ports will be saturated within the 2017 data the previewed trend of increase shows the overcoming of a annual volume of 2,5 million teu in 2020 and the attainment of a volume pairs to ten million teu over three decades.
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Terminalista society APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has announced to have introduced, with a consortium of partner constituted from the terminalista society Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) that the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC is under responsibility of), from the financial institution Orlean Invest, the energetic group Oando, the industrial group Nigerian Chagoury and the financial institution Macquarie Bank, a project for the realization of a great marine port and a Trade Free Zones to Badagry, in the State of Lagos, in Nigeria, with the objective to make of one of the main ports Africans.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
