The dry ports, also known as inland container terminals (ICDs), are located at Isiala Ngwa in Abia State, Erunmu, Ibadan, in Oyo State, Heipang in Plateau State, Zawachiki in Kano State, Zamfarawa, Funtua in Katsina State and Maiduguri in Borno State. This is coming just weeks after the dry port in Kaduna came on stream.
Actual construction at the five locations had been started since they were conceived and approved more than six years ago.
The Executive Secretary of the council, Hassan Bello, revealed the collaborative effort with the ICRC in Lagos recently.
According to him, the locations have already been concessioned to private sector operators by the Federal Ministry of Transportation’s Inland Container Depots, ICDs Implementation Committee. He said the projects are being executed under public private partnership (PPP).
“The same PPP model has also been adopted in driving the construction of Truck Transit Parks (TTPs) for which transaction advisers have already been appointed and the Council is now in the processes of procurement,” Bello revealed.
Bello said the Federal Government has begun the implementation of deliberate plans and policies targeted at making the country’s transport and shipping businesses become leading employers of labour and major contributors to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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