Nigeria: 100,000 Empty Containers Abandoned At Nigeria's Seaports

Nigeria: 100,000 Empty Containers Abandoned At Nigeria's Seaports

The Sea Empowerment and Research Centre (SEREC) has stated that an estimated 100,000 abandoned empty containers are currently littering the nation's seaports.

100,000 empty containers abandoned at Nigerias seaportsSEREC

The Sea Empowerment and Research Centre (SEREC) has stated that an estimated 100,000 abandoned empty containers are currently littering the nations seaports. It stated that it will cost shipping lines about $9 million each, about $900,000, to ship the entire empty containers abandoned in the nations seaports. Founder of SEREC, Dr Eugene Nweke, in a []

Nigerian Seaports Choking On Containers Crisis

A shocking investigation reveals that the nation’s ports are drowning in a sea of empty containers, creating an environmental and health catastrophe as freight forwarders estimate between 65,000 and 100,000 (twenty-foot equivalent units) TEUs of empty containers are littering Nigerian ports. According to the Sea Empowerment and Research Center (SEREC) pinpoints the exorbitant costs of shipping empty containers back to Europe, Asia, the US, and t…