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Story by Dili Utomi.
The Lekki Deep Sea Port which opened for operations in April 2023 with a capacity of 1.2 million twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs) has revealed that it targets the processing of 500,000 TEUs of containers for 2025.
Speaking after taking journalists round the Ports Thursday morning, Daniel Odibe, the deputy chief operating officer at the Port revealed that the Port which seats on a 9 hectares land space is projecting to meet its total capacity in the very near future. A 2 kilometres break water ridge calms the waves from the harbour with a 9 kilometre channel providing the way for the 4 tug boats to bring in the large vessels to drop the cargoes.
Earlier the chief operating officer of the Lekki Deep Sea Port, Mr. Yang Xixiong while speaking to the journalsists present on behalf of his managing director Mr. Wang Qiang said “we are indeed grateful for your exploits in ensuring that the world knows about the Lekki Port and the many milestones we have achieved, from the world-class infrastructure (STS Scanners) to the landmark berthing of ships (14,000 TEUs LNG powered vessel international shipment), as well as official visits and many notable accomplishments that strengthen the position of Lekki Port as a game changer in the Nigerian maritime Industry”.
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The Lekki Deep Sea Port is a multi purpose Port that has a drought level of minus 16.5 metres, it has received the largest vessel measuring 366 metres with a capacity of 14,000 TEUs, has a vessel turnaround time of 48 hours, truck turnaround time of 1 hour 25 minutes and a fully integrated automated system.
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Mr. Odibe revealed that “The Port receives between 10 to 12 vessels every month with a cargo dwell time of 16 days. The scanners only need about 33 seconds to scan a container as soon as the 5 gantry (ship to shore cranes) have done the usual evacuation. The stacking method follows the 7 wide, 6 heights system. Movement of the container from ship to shore takes a maximum of 3 minutes and presently, about 20% of the cargoes are evacuated through barges. The rest are evacuated through road transport as a plan to connect a rail transport system to the Port is in the pipeline”.
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It was also revealed that a reversal of the previous trend of transhipment of cargoes is happening now as the Port now internationally operates transshipment of cargos to Ghana, Benin Republic and Ivory Coast as well as also experimenting on internal transshipment of cargoes to the Onne Port in Rivers State.
The Port is reported to have handled 58, 000 TEUs of cargoes in 2023, 287, 000 TEUs in 2024 and that as at the end of June 2025, they have processed a total of 220,000 TEUs with a projection of attaining over 500,000 TEUs of containers by year end, this is according to Mr. Odibe.
On the matter of corporate social responsibility, the lLekki Deep Sea Port and subconcessioneers are said to be employing about 30% of their staff from the communities while aslo carrying out some environmental and educational projects within those communities.
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