{"id":2556,"date":"2009-01-10T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2009\/01\/10\/congestion-mounts-at-lagos\/"},"modified":"2009-01-10T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T12:24:00","slug":"congestion-mounts-at-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2009\/01\/10\/congestion-mounts-at-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Congestion mounts at Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During December, 79 vessels were reported awaiting berths at either container or oil terminals in Lagos, because of the backlog.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Public Enterprises blames the congestion not on terminal operators, but on the large number of government agencies involved.<\/p>\n<p>Shipping agencies have also been singled out for blame, given their inability to clear many containers.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, APM Terminals introduced an end of year amnesty on long-term stored boxes at its Apapa container terminal in order to clear containers. This reportedly cost the company $10.4m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of December, the Nigerian Minister of Transport gave the Nigerian Ports Authority just two weeks to find solutions to congestion stalling operations at ports in the Lagos area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}