What are these?
How effective are they?
How can they be leveraged?
Highlights
Fourteen years after the approval by FEC, the only operational and functioning Dry Port in Nigeria is the Kaduna Inland Dry Port. Commissioned by President Buhari in 2017, the dry port is now port of origin and port of destination with International Maritime Code. In fact, it is not out of place to tag Kaduna Inland Dry Port as a success story given the high volume of patronage and its performance level.
The Ibadan Inland Dry Port of which the Chinese Construction Company has mobilised to site is targeting early 2021 as delivery and commissioning date. Also the Heigpang Dry Port Jos is almost 60 percent completed. The new ‘toaster boy’ in this sector is the Kano Inland Dry Port of which the state government is committing a whopping sum of N2.4billion to provide infrastructural facilities such as access road, water, electricity, telecom modes, etc., to ensure that the port meets global standard. While all these are cheery news, the Isiala Ngwa Inland Dry Port looks like an abandoned project.
According to Roso, Woxemus and Lumsden, dry port is an inland intermodal terminal directly connected to a seaport with high capacity traffic, more preferably rail, where customers can leave and or collect their goods. Dry ports have unique services unlike inland terminals. Their unique services include transshipment, consolidation, track and trace, maintenance of containers, long and short time storage and customs clearance.
The dry port and intermodal concept is uniquely designed to not only laying and developing infrastructure that will link inland areas with coasts so as not only to create access to our hinterland farmers but also to create market for their products around the world while cutting drastically the high cost of moving goods around the country thereby reducing prices of agricultural products.
One planned for Osun State In Dagbolu
The State is also in the process of turning the MKO Abiola Airport in Ido-Osun into an international airport, catering to both passenger and cargo traffic. Further planned infrastructure investments include establishing an inland dry port in Dagbolu. The State has called for partnerships with the private sector for these two key developments, which have the potential to turn Osun into a logistics hub in the region, with incremental effects on its economy.
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• Stakeholder engagement processes are ongoing for the inland dry port project.