Lagos — Seven months after the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) flagged off the evacuation of cargoes from Lagos Ports to Onne Port, Rivers State and Onitsha Inland port in Anambra State, the service is yet to become operational.
NIWA had said the initiative was to decongest the Lagos Port from the perennial traffic gridlock, reduce cost of haulage of containers as well as make the Onitsha River Port boom of economic activities.
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