Project Name: Lekki Deepwater Port Project - Nigeria

Host Country: Nigeria

Project Duration: June 2020 – September 2022

Project Specification：

This project plans to construct two container berths and one tugboat dock. The shoreline of the dock is 680m long, with a water-break of about 2.2km long (of which the main water-break is 1.8km), an approach channel with a length of about 9km and a water depth of -16.5m, and a U-turn area with a diameter of 670m and a water depth of -16.5m.

Characteristics and Significance of the Project：

Nigeria is a country in the southeast of West Africa, at the apex of the west coast of the Gulf of Guinea in Africa. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with 201 million people, accounting for 16% of Africa’s total population as well as Africa’s largest economy. The Lekki Port project is located 60km east of Lagos, the economic center of Nigeria. Eighty percent of Nigeria’s import and export of goods depends on the Lekki Port -Lagos. Affected by the improper construction of roads and ports, the Port operations are currently saturated.

Located in the Lagos Free Trade Zone, Lekki Port is surrounded by Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lagos Free Trade Zone and Dangote Oil Refinery and Fertilizer Plant. The implementation of the project will quickly boost the local economy greatly enhancing the container distribution capacity of Lagos, an international metropolis in Africa, relieving traffic congestion in the city and port area, reducing the cost of international trade logistics, and in nutshell, improves the competitiveness of Nigeria's social economy.