Marine Utilities
Lagos Omi Eko: The Charging Footprint Changes the Jetty Workfront
IMWO original engineering diagram from the cited project records; geometry is schematic.
Lagos's Omi Eko electric-ferry programme brings a land problem into the jetty design. The environmental assessment identifies room for charging at Marina, Ikorodu, Badore, Bariga and Festac through parking reallocation. Falomo faces a tighter site with likely additional land requirements; Ebute Ojo, Liverpool, Oworonshoki and Baiyeku also require additional land in that assessment. EIB's June 2025 appraisal describes 25 jetties and stations, 12 charging and electricity-generation locations and two terminals equipped for daily or light maintenance. Each civil workfront needs enough shore space to make its waterfront usable. [2][3]
Charging space varies by station
The disclosed assessment is Setec's 8 August 2023 draft final revision, published in EIB's register in May 2025. EIB's data sheet is dated 19 June 2025 and sets the financing conditions. Its project record lists a EUR170 million financing signature on 11 December 2025. LASWA's September 2024 EPCS notice assigns land- and water-side design, environmental updates, tender preparation and construction supervision to the engineering consultancy. [1][2][3][4]
Land allocation reaches into the berth design
At Marina or Ikorodu, allocating the charger site from parking changes vehicle circulation and the passenger interchange. At Falomo, the limited land identified in the assessment raises a different sequencing problem: the permanent electrical compound and access route have to fit the usable plot. A jetty layout drawn before that footprint is settled can leave cable routes crossing the boarding path or place equipment where a gangway needs to land. Resolve these relationships with the final vessel and charging arrangement before fixing foundations and shore connections. [3] Water levels add a second interface. The assessment calls for floating-jetty fixings to accommodate sea-level change over the asset life; fixed concrete platforms need their levels and future load implications considered at design stage. Gangway travel and the route to shore equipment therefore belong in the same site design. The 2023 assessment also identifies Badore and Ladol as existing shipyards and proposes Ojagemo. These preparation locations require reconciliation with the later two-terminal light-maintenance scope when the maintenance layout is fixed. [2][3]
Evidence conclusion
Prepare a site-specific civil release
EIB requires evidence before disbursements that the PMOD and EPCS consultancies are progressing and that their relevant outputs enter the works and equipment tenders. Its appraisal also requires completion of national environmental procedures before construction and AFD-endorsed confirmation of compensation, resettlement assistance and livelihood-restoration measures in line with the civil-work sequence. [2] Use those conditions to prepare a release record for each station. Fix the available plot and rights of access, charger and electrical footprint, passenger route, jetty levels and gangway movement; then connect that layout to the relevant environmental clearance and resettlement delivery. A site dependent on additional land needs a different mobilisation sequence from a site using existing parking. Price temporary passenger access and retained services against that sequence. Before opening the route, combine the accepted civil interface with energisation, vessel compatibility and the assigned maintenance facility. This gives LASWA a station-level basis for releasing construction and commissioning as the programme develops.
Outstanding evidence
- Final station layouts, charging loads, grid interfaces and berth/gangway geometry
- Works tender packages, civil awards and site-specific environmental/resettlement clearances
- Confirmed maintenance-terminal locations and integrated vessel/shore commissioning records
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Sources used 4
- Lagos Waterways Investment Programme, project 20230707 European Investment Bank, Project summary published 2 October 2024; financing signed 11 December 2025
- Environmental and Social Data Sheet: Lagos Waterways Investment Programme, pages 1 and 6-8 European Investment Bank, 19 June 2025; published 25 June 2025
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, revision 02: charging land, shipyards and climate adaptation, pages 69, 72 and 92-93 Setec International for the Lagos waterways programme, disclosed by EIB, 8 August 2023 draft final report; published in EIB register 8 May 2025
- Omi Eko engineering, procurement, construction and supervision consultancy: expression of interest Lagos State Waterways Authority, AFD procurement publication, September 2024; submission deadline 16 October 2024, 15:00 local time