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AFRICA about 45 percent of the Lagos container market .
Record breakers APM Terminals Apapa established a new productivity record in July 2015 , handling 868 containers on the 4,500 TEU-capacity Safmarine Chambal over 11.5 hours , for a gross crane productivity of 19 container moves per crane an hour and a berth productivity of 75.65 MPH ( moves per hour ). Thus , it became the first container terminal in Nigeria to surpass 75 MPH operational benchmark at the Mobile Harbour Crane port facility .
At inception in 2006 , the average waiting time for vessels calling at the Apapa port was up to 30 days ; which reduced to eight days as of 2010 . Today the number of wait days has been reduced to almost zero due to efficiency improvements .
Andrew Dawes , Managing Director of APM Terminals Apapa , said : “ Not only have we removed the previous 30-day bottle neck to a move a customer ’ s cargo to the port , we have also made significant improvements in our real time on-terminal performance and operations ”.
The average waiting time for vessels calling at the Apapa port was up to 30 days
11 Driving efficiency Driving greater efficiencies such as eradicating port congestion surcharges , which nearly a decade ago stood at around $ 300 per container , to reducing freight trade costs and time out of the logistics chain , has enabled APM Terminals Apapa to raise its profile as
The number of harbour cranes at APM Terminals
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