尼日利亚’s $1.675-billion Lekki deep sea port development has received $221 million in equity funding from China Harbour Engineering Co., the Chinese-government owned marine contractor that had earlier won the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the project that is expected to create the deepest port in sub-Saharan Africa.

Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Ltd., a joint venture of Singapore-based Tolaram Group (75%), Nigeria’s federal ports agency (5%); and the Lagos state government (20%), said in a statement that the Chinese funding “will greatly contribute to fast tracking the timely delivery of the project and bring about economic prosperity to Nigeria as a whole.”

China Harbour Engineering, an affiliate of China Construction and Communication Co, is executing a $680-million phase of the contract through a subsidiary, with U.S. project management consultant Louis Berger, now owned by WSP Global, having led the EPC selection process. WSP is also handling contract management, design review and construction oversight.

Other components of the port project include construction of infrastructure for water supply and distribution and wastewater treatment; a 30 MW power plant for port operations; communications networks; and acquisition of container terminal equipment such as ship-to-shore cranes at the quay and gantry stacking cranes at the container yard.

去年10月,港口发展ent joint venture announced a $629-million project debt financing deal with China Development Bank and African Development Bank for construction of the port, which first broke ground in July 2012.

最初的计划是在41个月内完成该项目，但中国港口工程董事长林·伊奇（Lin Yichong）表示，该公司“将要在30个月内实现这一深海港口。”

该公司在2012年5月赢得了其他18个投标人，以赢得EPC合同，以设计，建造，拥有，操作和转移三个集装箱泊位，年总容量为270万21英尺等效单位（TEUS），这是4.5mt Dry Bulk泊位和三个可以处理16.7mt液体货物的液体泊位。

中国承包商从海底挖出了大约1300万立方英尺的材料。至少有450万立方英尺的疏and材料将用于收回和保护Lekki港口内的海滩区域，其余的则倾倒在指定的离岸现场。

港口开发合资公司已由尼日利亚州港口运营商授予45年特许权，以开发，财务，建造，运营和转移位于尼日利亚商业首都拉各斯65公里的拉各斯自由贸易区内的Lekki港口。它将从经营港口及其相关设施中的收入中收回其项目成本。18luck.cub

The port, to be built on 90ha of Lagos Free Trade Zone land, has a 14m deep navigation channel that is 600m wide and 6km long, while the main breakwater, which is constructed of rubble mound type with concrete armor block on the outer layer, runs 1500m long. The secondary breakwater is 300m long.

A project brief says the container terminal that is linked to the port has a quay 1200m long with three container berths and a storage yard that has 15,000 ground slots.

开发商说：“战略位置，灵活和优化的布局和现代设施为Lekki港口提供了与西非地区任何其他港口设施的竞争优势。”