Location
Nigeria / Africa
Project record
Nigeria Snake Island Container Terminal concession and EPC
MSC has taken a 45-year sub-concession for a new container terminal at Snake Island Port in Lagos and finalized an EPC contract with ITB Nigeria and DEME. The stated design has a 910-metre quay, a 30-hectare yard and initial dredging to -16.5 m chart datum, with provision for a later -18 m depth.
Segment
Deep-water ports and container terminals
Status
MSC signed a 45-year sub-concession and finalized the ITB/DEME EPC on 11 March 2026; the reviewed project sources do not record mobilisation / Confirmed
Last checked
18 July 2026
Coverage
Related sectors
Deep-water ports and container terminals is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.
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Project anatomy
Contract scope and delivery roles
- Client / authority
- Nigerdock and Snake Island Integrated Free Zone, under Nigerian Ports Authority oversight
- Delivery parties
- ITB Nigeria Ltd., DEME Group
- Contract route
- Nigeria's Federal Executive Council approved the wider Snake Island Port PPP in May 2023 at a stated USD 974.19 million for 45 years, with Nigerdock and Snake Island Integrated Free Zone as concessionaire. NPA said in June 2025 that an agreement for the port's USD 1 billion development had been finalized. MSC then announced on 11 March 2026 that it had signed a 45-year sub-concession with Nigerdock for the container terminal and finalized an EPC contract with ITB Nigeria and DEME. The published record does not give the EPC value or show an open downstream procurement.
- Execution window
- The public timeline runs from federal PPP approval in May 2023 through NPA's development-agreement statement in June 2025 to MSC's sub-concession and EPC announcement in March 2026. The official material reviewed for this entry gives no notice-to-proceed date, mobilisation date, construction duration or opening target for the new container terminal.
- Works package
- MSC describes a 30-hectare container yard with expansion space, a 910-metre quay for ship-to-shore and mobile harbour cranes, barge and deep-sea vessel service, hybrid rubber-tyred gantries, initial dredging to -16.5 m chart datum and a scalable final depth of -18 m. This is a defined container-terminal package within the wider 2023 Snake Island Port plan, which ICRC described as 85 hectares, three terminals, 2.5 km of quay, six ship berths, nine barge berths and drafts ranging from 6 m to 16 m.
- Marine interfaces
- Snake Island already supports port, free-zone and shipyard activity across the channel from Apapa and Tin Can Island. The new terminal therefore has to join a live harbour system: capital dredging, quay construction, barges, deep-sea vessel access, yard formation and terminal equipment must be coordinated with existing traffic and the maintained navigation channel. Existing ship calls at Snake Island Port are not proof that the new MSC container terminal has been built or opened.
- Commercial evidence boundary
- The concessionaire and EPC team are named, so this is no longer an open prime-contract pursuit. ITB, DEME, MSC, Nigerdock or NPA still need to publish subcontract notices, plant mobilisation, survey work, dredging and piling packages, equipment orders or a formal construction release. Until then, supplier positioning around hydrography, geotechnics, marine plant, piles, fenders, bollards, dredged-material management and terminal systems remains prospective rather than awarded work.
Project timeline
Material developments
Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.
Open this project in the Change LogMSC signed the sub-concession and finalized the EPC
The container-terminal package now has a 45-year commercial structure, named EPC parties and defined design geometry. The announcement does not establish a work start or operating date.
SourceNPA reported the development agreement finalized
NPA placed the wider port development on an 85-hectare site and used a USD 1 billion development figure. No EPC value, construction programme or physical progress record was included.
SourceFederal Executive Council approved the wider port PPP
The approval established a 45-year, USD 974.19 million multipurpose-port framework for Nigerdock and SIIFZ. ICRC said projects would still proceed to commercial close before commencement.
SourceEvidence gap
What remains unverified
Outstanding evidence
- Notice to proceed, construction programme and project-specific mobilisation
- Baseline hydrography, geotechnical investigation and dredging quantities
- Environmental permits and dredged-material disposal or reuse route
- Quay foundation, piling, reclamation and yard formation sequence
- Responsibility for the shared navigation channel and later -18 m deepening
- Crane, RTG, power, barge and landside-system integration
- Depth acceptance, berth commissioning and first sustained container service
Sources and related records
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Source collections
Project sources 5
- MSC Group secures concession for Snake Island Terminal and agrees EPC contract with ITB and DEME MSC, 11 March 2026
- Snake Island Integrated Free Zone history Snake Island Integrated Free Zone, Current page reviewed 18 July 2026
- Synopsis of NPA performance improvements under Dantsoho Nigerian Ports Authority, 18 June 2025
- FEC approves development of Snake Island Terminal Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, 19 May 2023
- Federal Government approval for Snake Island Port Snake Island Integrated Free Zone, 19 May 2023