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  2. Lekki Port - Wikipedia

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    Lekki Deep Sea Port, is a multi-purpose, deep sea port in the Lagos Free Zone and is the only currently operating deep sea port in the country, having started full commercial operations in April 2023. [1] It is the largest seaport of Nigeria and one of the biggest in West Africa.

  3. Marine construction - Wikipedia

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    Marine construction is the process of building structures in or adjacent to large bodies of water, usually the sea. These structures can be built for a variety of purposes, including transportation, energy production, and recreation. Marine construction can involve the use of a variety of building materials, predominantly steel and concrete ...

  4. Marine salvage - Wikipedia

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    USS Regulus hard aground in 1971 due to a typhoon: after three weeks of effort, Naval salvors deemed it unsalvageable.. Marine salvage takes many forms, and may involve anything from refloating a ship that has gone aground or sunk as well as necessary work to prevent loss of the vessel, such as pumping water out of a ship—thereby keeping the ship afloat—extinguishing fires on board, to ...

  5. Infrastructure in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria has numerous improved 4-laned roadways, including grade separations for railways. Near and inside cities have partial grade separations with feeder roads. Benin's coastal RNIE1 near the border between Benin and Nigeria is a 4 laned controlled access highway. As it crosses into Nigeria, it becomes the "Lagos-Badagry Express Way".

  6. List of terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa

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    MTN Group Nigeria Multi-Links Purchased by Helios in 2011; at this time, Multi-Links had a terrestrial fibre optic network spanning 8,232 km in Nigeria. [54] [55] [56] NITEL: Orange S.A. [23] Phase3 Telecom: In 2011, Phase3 were building the West Africa One network, an aerial optic fibre transmission system which runs from Nigeria to Benin and ...

  7. Keta Sea Defence - Wikipedia

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    The construction of the 41-million Euro sea defence began in October 2010 and was projected to be completed by December 2011 but was completed in October 2014. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The quantity of the dredge was estimated at 15 million cubic meters and the vessel type used was the Cutter Suction Dredge.

  8. Dolos - Wikipedia

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    Dolos construction yard - Yzerfontein, South Africa A man stands next to a dolos, showing its relative size. Dolosse moulds are in the foreground - Durban , South Africa Dolosse are normally made from un-reinforced concrete, poured into a steel mould.

  9. Autonomous Port of Abidjan - Wikipedia

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    The Port of Abidjan is the most important port in West Africa and the second most important in Africa after the Port of Durban.According to the Ivoirian Ministry of Economy and Finance, traffic through the port contributes to 90% of the customs revenues of Ivory Coast and 60% of the country's income. 70% of Ivoirian GDP passes through the port; 65% of industrial entities in the country use it ...