Lagos State, AFD, European Union, and European Investment Bank join forces to launch the Omi Eko Project

The Lagos State Government, with enactment from the French Development Agency (AFD),  European Union (EU), and European Investment Bank (EIB), is acceptable to revolutionise ferry transport with the motorboat of the Omi Eko Project, an ambitious inaugural designed to restructure, upscale, and modernise the city’s waterways sector.

This transformative task volition found an organised, efficient, and affordable ferry strategy that enhances connectivity and improves the regular lives of residents successful Lagos.

Implemented by the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), the task is supported technically and financially by a consortium of European partners led by the French Development Agency (AFD) with a indebtedness of 130 cardinal euros, and jointly supported by the  European Investment Bank (EIB) with a indebtedness of 170 cardinal euros, and the EU with a assistance of 60  cardinal euros.

Omi Eko stands arsenic a testament to the beardown concern betwixt Lagos and  Europe and complements AFD’s ongoing practice with LAMATA connected sustainable land-based municipality mobility.

The Omi Eko Project volition present 15 structured ferry routes, spanning 140 kilometres and linking 25 upgraded and expanded ferry terminals crossed the city. As portion of the initiative, 75  state-of-the-art electrical vessels, each susceptible of carrying up to 440 passengers, volition beryllium procured. These vessels volition importantly chopped greenhouse state emissions portion drastically reducing aerial and h2o pollution.

This marks a existent translation successful municipality mobility for Lagos. The existing h2o transport strategy volition beryllium wholly modernised, replacing the existent fleet of small, noisy, and irregular boats with safe, comfortable, and environmentally affable ferries operating connected a fixed and reliable timetable.

Safety is astatine the halfway of the caller system, which volition beryllium afloat integrated with the existing public  transport web managed by LAMATA. Commuters volition bask seamless ticketing done the  Cowry Card, and convenient connections betwixt modes—including Metro, BRT, and last-mile buses.

A flagship constituent of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s THEMES+ Agenda, Omi Eko aims to  summation the s...