This landlord arrangement as they call it, has fostered better relationship and high turn-out of goods and services in and around the Nigerian Port system either in the Eastern or the ever-busy Western zone.

From 1962 - 1968, under the Nigerian Development plan, the length of the quays was expanded and additional warehouses and cargo handling equipment were added.

In 1974, the Nigerian Ministry of Defense began a program of building various barracks to house almost all of its soldiers.

Towards the end of the year, the Ministry began a process of issuing offers to various companies for cement delivery.

[5] Other government agencies such as the Federal Housing Authority and the Nigerian National Supply Company also ordered about 4 million tonnes of cement to be delivered within a year.

NPA will continue to act as the landlord and provide common user facilities, technical oversight and other marine services.

Tin Can Island Port at Lagos was hastily constructed in 1976 to ameliorate the problems of the 1975 'cement armada' crisis.

It was commissioned on 14 October 1977 at a total cost of N200 million and comprised [9] 10 berths and 2.5 kilometres of hard quay.

Located in the southeast corner of the country in Cross River State, Calabar is the home of the Eastern Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy.