JPS Terminal investing $62m in infrastructure upgrade to deepen services— Travers
The Managing Director of Josepdam Port Service (JPS) Nigeria Limited, Mr. Simon Travers, has opened up on the 2019 development plan of the Terminal.
In an interview, he said “We are upgrading the facility to world class, importing all their machinery and infrastructure from Europe to improve our discharge to 600 ton an hour. We will definitely be the most productive and premium terminal for discharge in Nigeria”.
“The construction has started and it will be concluded in 2 years time. It is a $62 million investment. It is going to give us storage of 150 ton that we intend to fill a minimum of four times what we have at present.
“It will also increase the number of vessel call because at the moment the system that we have got, we only have three berths.
“If you look at the place you can have 11 berths, one thing we have to look at here is how to utilize our berths better, if there is any way we can utilize our berths better and faster for the vessels calling at our facility.
According to him, “At the moment the discharge for the maize in Honeywell, Holland, and Eagle flourmills, their discharge is 250 ton an hour; with what we are bringing in it will be 600 ton an hour”.
“So if we discharge 250 ton an hour, we have a 30 thousand tons which will take us five to seven days to discharge but if we discharge 600 ton an hour it will take two days with the minimum of 50 per cent increment.
“So we can turn vessels around 50 per cent quicker and we will be doing 120 vessels per year, this will enable us to do at least 200 ships a year with the same mass space. It will increase our berth occupancy, so that is the reason we are doing what we are doing and this is a secondary core business for us.
“What we are now doing is to encourage manufacturers to utilize our silos facilities because space is premium in Lagos but most especially in Tin Can, there is no more space so we are capitalizing on the 5.7 hectares of land we bought, 10 square metres is going to be used for silos storage. Those 10 thousand square metres will hold a 153 thousand of cargo,” Travers averred.
