By Rita Elenwo
The Minister of Transportation, Saidu Alkali, has inaugurated the first cargo movement from the Lagos-Ibadan rail corridor during his first official tour of the rail corridor on Tuesday.
Alkali kicked off the tour at the Ebute Metta station before proceeding to Apapa for the launch, and later to Ibadan using the 157 km rail corridor.
The freight movement kicked off with
three coaches of 30 wagons which were loaded at the inaugural event.
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said it would start with three coaches per day with its Managing Director (MD) Fidet Okhiria noting that the corporation had the capacity to scale up the numbers.
This effort is expected to decongest the Apapa port as shippers moved 92.28 percent of Nigeria’s total exports and 60.77 percent of imports through the facility in the first quarter of 2022 (Q1’22).
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