The Federal Government will re-connect the country’s railway with the sea ports to boost economic activities, the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has said.
.Amaechi spoke during a meeting with port professionals on Monday in Lagos.
The minister said this was in line with President Muhamadu Buhari’s resolve to diversify the economy.
“We expect that before June or July, we should begin the process or we should start the construction of the Lagos-Kano, and possibly the Lagos-Calabar railway.
“If those two contracts commence, then we expect that they would generate employment (and) economic activity would improve.
“And we say that all of these must terminate at the sea ports, so anybody can import from any particular place in time.
“You can import from Warri Sea Port; you can import from Port Harcourt sea port; you can import or export from Calabar sea port or any of the sea ports.
“In terminating the railway, we are going to terminate one at Apapa and another one at Tin Can to encourage inter-modal means of transportation.’’
The minister gave the assurance that appropriate measures would be taken to ensure that the country received the right amount of revenue from the system.
