By Godwin Oritse
Activities at the Lagos Port Complex, LPC, may be going through a lull as 24 empty ship berths were recorded on the average last week, giving an occupancy rate of about 54 per cent, against the full capacity of 52 berths.
Hitherto, the berths are usually busy at 100 per cent occupancy rate with vessels on queue to berth.
Maritime operators told Vanguard Maritime Report that though at 44 per cent vacancy rate it appears an improvement against last month’s position, but going by the trend in recent times the vacancy rate may still go above 60 per cent by end of the month.
The vacancy rate peaked at 60 per cent last month when occupancy was 21 against 31 vacancies.
Previous week the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Ms Hadiza Bala Usman, said that there has been a steady decrease in vessel calls to the country’s ports.
The vacancy…
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