Transforming West African ports into engines of frictionless continental trade.
Port congestion, arbitrary container damage deductions, and demurrage traps inflate the retail cost of every imported machine, raw material, and food staple in Nigeria by up to 28%. PortNexus replaces manual port bottlenecks with verifiable optical and customs precision—protecting indigenous importers, empowering clearing agents, and cutting harbor diesel emissions.
Eliminated wrongful container repair deductions and avoidable customs demurrage across serviced terminals.
Licensed customs brokers, barge crews, and haulage drivers paid via instant TerminalEscrow™ milestones.
Eliminated 74% of unproductive reach-stacker re-stows and multi-day truck idling outside port gates.
Automated empty-return verification replaces the historical 60-to-90 day shipping-line refund delay.
How algorithmic port operations unlock African commerce.
Ending Predatory Container Deposit Forfeitures & Demurrage Traps
West African importers and licensed customs clearing agents routinely pay $1,000 to $3,000 per container in refundable caution deposits—only to have those funds withheld for months over unverified "panel dent" or "floor scratch" claims that actually occurred at sea.
Eliminating Multi-Day Truck Gridlock & Unproductive Crane Diesel Burn
Port access highways in Apapa, Tin Can, and Onne have historically suffered from miles of idling articulated trucks waiting for paper TDOs and uncoordinated yard retrieval—choking host communities with particulate emissions.
Connecting Northern & Eastern Inland Dry Ports to Global Shipping Lanes
Manufacturers and agricultural exporters in Kano, Kaduna, Enugu, and Aba face prohibitive logistics costs when forced to clear every container at coastal seaports. PortNexus powers seamless through-bill-of-lading operations to inland dry ports.
Direct feedback from Nigerian maritime stakeholders.
Alhaji Musa Abdullahi
Licensed Customs Clearing Director · Kano & Tin Can Corridors
“For years, shipping lines deducted ₦400,000 to ₦800,000 from our clients’ container deposits claiming ‘side-panel dents’ that were already on the box when it left the vessel. Since our terminal deployed PortNexus ContainerVision™, every pre-existing dent is photographed and graded in 3D at gate-in. Our clients now get 100% of their deposits back in 48 hours.”
Engr. Biola Olatunji
Bonded Terminal Yard Superintendent · Lekki & Onne Hubs
“Before PortNexus BerthYield™, our reach-stacker operators were moving three containers just to dig out one box whose TDO had cleared. By linking TariffSentinel’s customs release predictions directly to our Navis N4 stacking rules, we increased crane productivity from 42 to 64 moves per hour and cut gate queues to under 25 minutes.”
Our 2028 scale & corridor commitments.
Expanding autonomous gate vision and customs pre-clearance across Lagos, Onne, Calabar, Tema (Ghana), Abidjan, and Lomé.
250,000+ TEUs Audited Monthly
Deploying ContainerVision™ optical portals across 45+ deep-sea berths, barge terminals, and inland dry ports across the ECOWAS maritime corridor.
₦12 Billion Deposit Shield
Safeguarding West African importers and exporters against wrongful container damage deductions and avoidable port demurrage via TerminalEscrow™.
12-Hour Coastal-to-Dry-Port SLA
Enabling zero-stop bonded rail and barge container transfers from Lekki and Onne directly into northern and eastern industrial zones.
Partner with an operating system that drives sovereign trade velocity.
Join the 22 bonded terminals, clearing houses, and shippers managing 14,500+ TEUs monthly on PortNexus.