Transport in Nigeria

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Contents 1 Railways 1.1 Railway links with adjacent countries 1.2 Timeline 1.2.1 2006 1.2.2 1999 1.2.3 1991 1.3 Maps 1.4 Cities served by rail 1.5 Cities proposed to be served by rail 2 Highways 3 Waterways 4 Pipelines 5 Ports and harbors 5.1 Atlantic Ocean 6 Merchant marine 7 Airports 7.1 Airports - with paved runways 7.2 Airports - with unpaved runways 7.3 Heliports 8 External links

Railways

total: 3,557 km
narrow gauge:

3,505 km 1.067-m gauge

19 km 1.067-m gauge convertible to 1.435m

standard gauge: 329 km 1.435-m gauge

note: Years of neglect of both the rolling stock and the right-of-way have seriously reduced the capacity and utility of the system. A project to restore Nigeria's railways is now underway. A project to convert the gauge of the system to 1435mm has also somewhat stalled.

Railway links with adjacent countries

• Niger - no railways - landlocked
• Chad - no railways - landlocked
• Cameroon - no - break of gauge 1067mm/1000mm
• Benin - no - break of gauge 1067mm/1000mm

Timeline

2006

• CHINA HELPS WITH REVOLUTIONARY ‘FAST” RAIL

22 March 2006 In terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Nigeria’s federal Government on 16 March, the Guangdong Xinguang International Group is to construct a revolutionary “fast” rail (RFR) system from Lagos to the capital Abuja (where there is no existing railway) as well as light rail lines to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport from Lagos city and to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from the Abuja city centre.

• According to the minister of commerce, $US2billion has been made available to start the projects, and the Chinese company will also invest in the three planned stages of the projected Abuja light rail system.

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1999

• Construction started on a 19km gauge convertible branch line from Port Harcourt to the Federal Ocean Terminal at Onne.

1991

• Construction started on a 275km standard gauge line from the steel mills at Ajaokuta to the sea port of Warri.

Maps

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Cities served by rail

• Lagos, Port Harcourt
• Ajaokuta
• Baro, Bauchi, Bajoga
• Enugu,
• Gombe, Gusau
• Ibadan, Ilorin, Itakpe, Idogo, Ikeja
• Jos
• Kaduna, Kano, Kaura Namoda
• Lafia,
• Makurdi, Minna, Maiduguri
• Nguru
• Oshogbo, Otukpo
• Umagha, Uyo
• Zaria

Cities proposed to be served by rail

• Abuja
• Akure
• Asaba
• Benin City
• Calabar
• Katsina
• Sokoto
• Warri

Highways

total: 194,394 km
paved: 60,068 km (including 1,194 km of expressways)
unpaved: 134,326 km (1998 est.)
note: Many of the roads reported as paved may be graveled. Because of poor maintenance and years of heavy freight traffic (in part the result of the failure of the railroad system), much of the road system is barely usable.

Waterways

8,575 km consisting of the Niger and Benue rivers and smaller rivers and creeks

Pipelines

crude oil 2,042 km; petroleum products 3,000 km; natural gas 500 km

Ports and harbors

Atlantic Ocean

• Calabar
• Lagos - railhead
• Onne - site of Federal Ocean Terminal - railhead under construction
• Port Harcourt - railhead
• Sapele
• Warri

Merchant marine

total: 40 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 360,505 GRT/644,471 DWT
ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 12, chemical tanker 4, petroleum tanker 22, specialized tanker 1 (1999 est.)

Airports

Main article: Airports in Nigeria

71 (1999 est.)

Airports - with paved runways

total: 37
over 3,047 m: 7
2,438 to 3,047 m: 10
1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 8
under 914 m: 2 (1999 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 34
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 15
under 914 m: 18 (1999 est.)

Heliports

1 (1999 est.)

External links

• Federal Ministry of Transport

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