The Federal Government has received 18 units of an open wagon from China that will run on the existing rail narrow gauge line.
The Managing Director Nigeria Railway Corporation, Fidet Okhiria, who received the wagons at the Apapa Port in Lagos, said the imported open wagons are in a renewed effort by the government to decongest the Apapa Port.
Okhiria added that the wagon which is to be used for container traffic and general cargo movement will be deployed immediately to the dry seaports in Kaduna and other states.
Okhiria said that the government is expecting more coaches, wagons, and locomotives for the standard gauge line which is expected to arrive this year.
Each of the deployed 18 wagons has the capacity to freight two units of 20 feet containers or one unit of the 40 feet container.
