On Tuesday, Senator Saidu Alkali, the minister of transportation, signalled the beginning of the container movement out of Apapa's Lagos Port Complex (LPC).
Following the flag-off, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) announced that three trains each carrying 30 waggons will leave the ports each day, relieving some of the traffic's burden on the roads.
Two years after former President Muhammadu Buhari launched the standard gauge rail line connecting the port, the goods train service was flagged off.
At the flag-off ceremony on Tuesday, a train carrying 30 waggons departed from APM Terminals Apapa for Moniya in Ibadan, the rail line's terminus.
According to Minister Alkali, the goods train would run temporarily on a single track while a radioactive scanning site owned by the Nigeria Customs Service is taken down.
According to reports, the radioactive building caused a two-year delay in the start of the goods service.
-By Abeokuta Achebe|thetranporteronline24|Nigeria
