This was carried out by the Minister of Transportation, Saidu Alkali, during his first official tour of the rail corridor yesterday.
The minister kicked off the tour at the Ebute Meta station before proceeding to Apapa for the launch, then traveled to Ibadan using the one hundred and fifty seven kilometer rail corridor.
Three coaches of thirty wagons were loaded as the inaugural freight movement was kicked off.
The Nigerian Railway Corporation said it would start with three coaches per day with its Managing Director noting that the corporation had the capacity to scale up the numbers.
This move is expected to decongest the Apapa port as shippers moved ninety two point two eight percent of Nigeria’s total exports and sixty point seven seven percent of imports through the facility in the first quarter of 2022.
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