The terminal operators are alleged to have
also pledged to raise as much as US$600 million dollars to dredge and deepen
the Lagos port channels with a view to attracting bigger vessels to the ports.
It was gathered that, SOAN made a presentation to the management of NPA seeking approval to deepen the channels.
Confirming the development, Managing
Director of the NPA, Mr. Mohammed Bello-Koko said that it is true that other
terminal operators are jittery over the emergence of the Lekki Deep Seaport.
Bello-Koko also said that these terminal
operators have to up their game, adding that competition is good for the
industry.
He said: “Yes they must feel threatened by
the emergence of the Lekki deep seaport; that means they have to up their game.
Besides, competition is good for the industry.”
The NPA, it was also gathered, has set up a
committee to look into the request of the terminal operators and decided
against the deepening of the channels as such moves could have dire
consequences on the ports and its environment.
Efforts to get comments from the Seaport
Terminal Operators Association was futile as its Chairman, Princess Vicky
Hastrrup, could not be reached as her phone lines were switched off.
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