The management of the Lekki Deep Seaport has said that the port will serve as a trans-shipment port for cargoes going to eastern ports.

The Chief Commercial Officer of Lekki Freeport Terminal, Kehinde Olubi-Neye, said this while addressing journalists during a recent tour of the port facility.

Olubi-Neye also said that the port will work to recover the country’s transship cargo loss to other neighbouring West African countries.

According to him, the new port, which has invested close to $100m in the acquisition of terminal and cargo handling equipment, has the needed equipment and the draft to recover transship cargo bound for landlocked neighbouring countries.

Olubi-Neye added that the management of the Lekki Freeport Terminal had engaged stakeholders, including Nigeria Customs Service, among others.

He expressed confidence that the firm will recover transshipment cargo not just for the hinterland but also for landlocked countries and other regional countries.

On cargo evacuation from the port, Olubi-Neye said Lekki Port operated an automated system that was linked to the automated gate with the vehicle booking system where truck drivers were required to book appointments in advance.

He said that Lekki port was also exploring the possibility of moving cargo by barges and had been able to execute more than five barge movements of over 900 twenty-foot equivalent units of containers from Lekki port to the Ikorodu area of Lagos.

He further disclosed that the port has completed a truck park very close to the port that has the capacity to accommodate 150 trucks.

He commended the efforts of the Federal Government and Lagos State Government in constructing the roads, which he said had improved significantly.

For his part, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Mohammed Bello-Koko, represented by Ikechukwu Onyemakara, described Lekki Port as a Nigerian project and assured the management that the NPA would do everything within its powers to grant necessary approvals and to provide marine services to the port.

Earlier, the Chief Executive Officer of Lekki Freeport Terminal, Yann Magarian, said the port would shape the maritime economy of the country.

• 30% of fresh water is in the ground.

• 1.7% of the world’s water is frozen and therefore unusable.

• Approximately 400 billion gallons of water are used in the United States per day.

• Water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid including sulfuric acid.

• The freezing point of water lowers as the amount of salt dissolved in at increases. With average levels of salt, seawater freezes at -2 °C.

• About 6,800 gallons of water is required to grow a day’s food for a family of four.

• 780 million people lack access to an improved water source.

• 1/3 of what the world spends on bottled water in one year could pay for projects providing water to everyone in need.

• Water weighs about 8 pounds a gallon.

• A jellyfish and a cucumber are each 95% water.

• 70% of the human brain is water.

• Up to 50% of water is lost through leaks in cities in the developing world.

• $260 billion is the estimated annual economic loss from poor water and sanitation in developing countries.

• A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.

• Water expands by 9% when it freezes.

• There is about the same amount of water on Earth now as there was millions of years ago.

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Jellyfish Lake, also known as Eil Malk Lake, is a small marine lake which is located on Eil Malk Island, which is part of the Rock Islands of the Pacific island nation of the Republic of Palau.

With length of 460 meters (1,510 feet) and width of 160 meters (520 feet), it has an average depth of about 30 meters (100 feet), making it quite interesting place to snorkel.

One of the most famous features for which this small lake is known for are the golden jellyfish, also known as Mastigias cf. papua etpisoni, which have evolved much more differently from their close relatives living in the nearby lagoons.

Supposedly trapped in the lake 12,000 years ago after a post-Ice Age rise of the sea levels, the jellyfish is thriving on the quick-growing algae and with no predators to keep them in check they are in the lake in great numbers.

The lake on other hand is stratified into two layers, where an upper layer of oxygenation can be measured, while the lower layer is with very low levels of oxygen.

The lower layer is dangerous as the layer of hydrogen sulfide which is located between 15 and 20 meters (49 and 66 feet) is quite perilous, nonetheless, fortunately the stratification is persistent and seasonal mixing does not occur.

Those who are visiting this Palauan jewel are able to see the magnificent golden jellyfish which are migrating from one side of the lake to the other to follow the path of the sun, which feeds the algae from which they are thriving.

Unfortunately, in the recent years, there has been a strange disappearance of the jellyfish, as the stingless and harmless creatures might have disappeared, if not for good, at least for a while.

The problem, according to some scientists, was not a lack of sunlight, but the increased salinity of the saltwater lake due to the ocean warming weather pattern what is commonly known as El Niño.