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News22 Jan 2017

The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has awarded a licence to the developers of the new port of Badagry to add a free trade...

News1 Jul 2015

Nigeria is planning large new ports for the Lagos and Calabar areas, while existing terminals are being modernised in order to integrate int...

News15 Aug 2012

The Nigerian Ports Authority has a new managing director, Habibu Abdullahi...

News10 Aug 2012

Singapore's Tolaram group and ICTSI have signed the sub-concession agreement for the operation of Lekki International Container Terminal...

News14 Mar 2012

ICTSI has been selected as the preferred operator for a sub-concession to equip and operate the container terminal at the future Nigerian Po...

News15 Jun 2011

Dutch firm Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded a series of port dredging and land reclamation contracts in Africa...

News1 Jun 2011

With Nigeria’s long election process now completed, the government in Abuja is turning its attention to long term reforms, including in th...

News8 Nov 2010

Israel’s Zim Lines has announced that it has signed a deal to sell its 47.5% stake in Tin-Can Container Terminal in Nigeria (TICT) to a Ch...

News6 Jul 2010

Nigeria's new president, Goodluck Jonathan, is keen to press ahead in his short time in power...

News1 Apr 2010

The development consortium behind the planned new Port at Lekki in Nigeria has revealed more details of its proposals. Lekki Port LFTZ Enter...

News1 Nov 2009

Nigeria’s Calabar port is back in business, having welcomed its first containership in two decades this month in what is expected to provi...

News1 Oct 2009

A N36B (US$233M) project to dredge the River Niger to open it up to ocean going vessels has finally begun. A total of 572 km of river passin...

News13 Dec 2008

The director general of Nigeria’s Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Irene Chigbue, has condemned the level of bureaucracy in the country...

News1 Apr 2008

Terminal operator SDV International Logistics has announced that it is to invest Naira5.2B (US$45M) in redeveloping Tin Can Island container...

News1 Mar 2008

APM Terminals (APMT) has announced that it has invested US$235M in its Nigerian port concessions to date, including US$140M in upgrading Apa...