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Home » Company Proposes $2.9b Seaport At Escravos, Delta

Company Proposes $2.9b Seaport At Escravos, Delta

by Joshua
April 24, 2021
in Featured, News

A company; Mercury Maritime Concession Company (MMCC) Ltd. on Friday announced plans to establish a $2.9 billion seaport at Escravos, Delta, to decongest Lagos ports.

The Chairman of MMCC, Rear Adm. Andrew Okoja, made the disclosure at a stakeholders’ forum for the proposed Escravos Seaport Industrial Complex (ESIC – 1) project.

The forum held in Lagos.

Okoja said that the project was at its preparatory stage, but gave the assurance that within five years, it would be completed.

“MMCC is the promoter of the Escravos Seaport Industrial Complex (ESIC-1) project; this is a maritime-driven project cited in Escravos in Delta, on approximately 31 hecters of land.

“This project will consist of a deep seaport, others and a platform to drive resources from one point to another.

“We went into this project because we have the capacity, experience and connections; we decided to deploy them to solve the maritime problem of the country,” he said.

Okoja said the project would run on a Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) model and would be on lease for about 50 years with all the $2.9 billion dollars funding coming from overseas.

He further said that the project was expected to create about 30,000 to 40,000 jobs for the people in surrounding communities and would tackle piracy and militancy in Niger Delta.

He said the company had received a provisional approval from the Federal Ministry of Transportation, which asked it to lodge in $1 billion dollars as evidence of capacity and commitment to follow due process.

“As a form of support, government is bringing land; we will pay for it and then we will pay our tax. The Nigerian Ports Authority’s role is that of monitoring,” he said.

Prof. Charles Asenime, a transport consultant, said that the proposed $2.9 billion seaport would boost economic development.

He listed the project component to include a deep seaport, free trade zone, crude oil refinery and gas complex.

Others are industrial layouts, an independent power plant, a nature conservation park, an international airport and development of prime infrastructure, new towns and cities.

Asenime said the benefits of the seaport would include boosting employment opportunities, giving Delta direct multimodal transport accessibility to 70 per cent of Nigeria’s land mass, four geo-political zones and Abuja, and littoral nations of the world.

He listed other benefits as transformation of the coastal/foreshore line between Benin River into prime lands for seafront property development, and support for the African Continental Free Trade Agreement operations, among others.

“We are praying for the Federal Government to grant MMCC licence to develop ESIC-1 project, partner to develop it and grant concession to develop ESIC-1 at the current Escravos project location,” he said.

Mr Philippe Droesbeke, Manager, Port Projects, Port of Antwerp International, said that the company was acting as consultants to the project, laying out plans and ensuring that its feasibility study was done.

“We are happy to put our experience to the development of the project,” he said.


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