New Telegraph-Admin The Vice President (Oil & Gas), Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Mr. Devakumar Edwin, has said that there are plans to transport 75 per cent of domestic petroleum product supply of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals supply via sea routes.
He stated that the group targeted key locations like Calabar, Port Harcourt, and Warri. He, however, said DIL had the capacity to load 83 per cent of its products by road. According to him, the resort to sea transportation will reduce the higher costs associated with road distribution.
He spoke with Arise News which was viewed by New Telegraph yesterday. Edwin said that as the largest single-train refinery globally, Dangote Refinery offered both sea and road export options. He, however, said the refinery was galvanising strategies to evacuate nearly all production by sea.
He explained that products for Atlas, Apapa, Warri, Calabar and Port Harcourt would primarily move by sea, adding that shift to sea transport will greatly reduce costs and so reduce prices of the products for users.
According to him, most products for central Nigeria can be shipped from Port Harcourt and Warri, while those for the East and Northeast can be moved from Calabar.
He also said that there was a strategy whereby road transport will be resorted to for urgent needs.
According to him, this will ease pressure on road infrastructure and cut transhipment costs. Edwin said: “We have both exporting facilities by sea and by road. 75 per cent of the production can be evacuated.
