"Federal Government to Develop Transit Trailer Parks", Says Transport Minister

With its plans to decongest roads of trailers and trucks parking on the nations roads across the country, the Honourable Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has revealed the plans of government to develop trailer parks in certain locations.



In a press statement issued recently, Mr. Amaechi said the “Federal Government plans over the next couple of years to develop Truck Transit Parks at Lokoja in Kogi State, Obollo Afor in Enugu State, Ogere in Ogun State, Jebba in Kwara State and Port Novo Creek in Lagos State as alternative strategy to address the menace of truck congestion at the seaports in Apapa and Port Harcourt".

“These are meant to complement the Ore Sunshine City in Ondo State, and the ones being processed by the Kaduna State Government at Mararaban Jos, Bukuru and Tapa on the Kaduna-Abuja highway".

Mr. Amaechi who is worried by increasing accidents on the highways with attendant loss of lives and property involving articulated vehicles, disclosed that "the Federal Government has embarked on a program that will see all trucks on Nigerian highways designated to transit parks on the highway corridors".

"Already, transaction advisors have been advertised by the Nigeria Shippers Council (NSC), the promoter of the initiative, and investors will soon be prequalified", he stated.