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The deep-sea port of Lekki is the first port in Nigeria with ship-to-shore cranes. It has three of these container gantry cranes; they belong to the "Super-post-Panamax" group - this means that they can reach and unload the rearmost row of containers even if the container ship is wider than the Panama Canal (49 m or 160 ft maximum boat beam).
In 2019, it was announced Tolaram Group is developing Nigeria's first privately owned free trade zone with an integrated deep-sea port in the Lekki area of Lagos. [18] Lekki Port is Nigeria's single largest private infrastructure investment. [19] The port is expected to have an aggregate impact of approximately US$361b on the Nigerian economy ...
[1] The Free zone is integrated with Lekki Deep Sea Port and covers 830 hectares of area in Lagos. [2] [3] Lagos Free Zone is located 60 kilometers to the east of Lagos city. Similar to other free zones, companies in LFZ can sell all their goods in Nigerian customs territory with no state or federal taxes charged without an import or export ...
The port will help meet rising demand for containers in Nigeria, the compound annual growth rate of which is forecast to be 12.9% between 2016 and 2025. It will also create 170,000 jobs and bring the government $200bn in revenue, according to Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise, the port’s developer.
Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ) is a West African economic development area, established and operated by Nigerdock. [1] It is strategically located on 252 hectares of land [1] and infrastructure within the main harbour of Lagos, Nigeria and along the main navigation channel adjacent to Tin Can Island and Apapa ports, with immediate access to the open sea.
A Panamax port is a deepwater port that can accommodate a fully laden Panamax ship. With the completion of the Panama Canal expansion project in 2016, this list will need to be significantly revised due to larger "post panamax" ships transiting Panama.
The Lekki Airport project is projected to cost ₦71.64bn (US$ 450 million) in its first phase, [2] planned to be situated 10 km from Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ), and was originally proposed to open in 2028. It will be designed to cater for the Airbus A380, making it a Code F-compliant airport.
Lekki is a city in Lagos State, Nigeria.It is located to the south-east of Lagos city.Lekki is a naturally formed peninsula, adjoining to its west Victoria Island and Ikoyi districts of Lagos, with the Atlantic Ocean to its south, Lagos Lagoon to the north, and Lekki Lagoon to its east; however, the city's southeast, which ends around the western edge of Refuge Island, adjoins the eastern part ...