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Lekki
Lagos, Nigeria · Africa
About Lekki
Lekki sits on the route: 20 minutes from Akodo.
Lekki is in Lagos, Nigeria, with about 400,000 people. The nearest town is Akodo, about 18 km away.
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.
It is the largest seaport of Nigeria and one of the biggest in West Africa. Lekki port is to be expanded to have aRead more
capacity of handling around 6 million TEUs of containers and a significant volume of liquid and dry bulk uncontainerized cargoes. The port is to be equipped with ships able to transport over 14,500 containers.
The port is being developed in phases. Its phase one, be operational in 2018, chiefly comprises it three container berths equipped to handle more than 1.8 million TEUs — one berth for dry bulk goods and two berths for liquid cargo.
The port is financed by private investors and a consortium of banks who have funded the project with $1.5 billion as of March 2021. The seaport is to occupy up to 90 hectares of land. The port started commercial operations in April 2023.
On October, 31st, 2022, the port has been handed over to the owners. Commissioning will start "in the next month". Lagos State governor Sanwo-Olu promised on this occasion to expand the roads to the port to 6 lane highways.
On 22 January 2023, a few hours before the official inauguration by President Buhari, the first commercial ship, the container freighter CMA CGM MOZART, docked at the port.
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Lekki is in Lagos, Nigeria, about 18 km from Akodo.
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- Population
- 401,272
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Nigeria
- Region
- Lagos
- Timezone
- Africa/Lagos
- Coordinates
- 6.4122, 4.0947
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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