Brass – Shipping World News Magazine

Founded in 1895, Brass used to be, traditionally, a fishing settlement. But early in the 19th century, it became a strategic route not only for slave trade but for palm produce and was aptly dubbed the "Venice of Niger Delta" by some authors. In today's Nigeria, Brass is unarguably to Bayelsa what Lekki is to Lagos. Brass is an emerging investment and industrial hub. While the Lekki free trade zone and the Dangote Free Zone Enterprise both located in Lekki, Lagos parade a world class refinery and a Deep Sea Port with potentials for huge domestic and foreign investments, Brass Oil and Gas Free City Zone, when fully operational, is blessed with a Liquified Natural Gas plant, a proposed refinery and a port terminal that is blessed with several jetties, with proximity to the Atlantic Ocean....

The dream for a Deep Sea Port in Agge in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State is legendary and as old as the creation of the State. Every successive Administration in the State had toyed with the idea of a Deep Sea Port in Agge. From Late DSP Alamieyeseigha to the incumbent Gov Douye Diri, the need to construct this natural deep Seaport has always attracted traction as a legacy project that should be taken out of the drawing board. But if my memory serves me right, more often than not, these intentions have died up the moment the saliva which followed such pronouncements dried up. But to be fair to former Governor Seriake Dickson ,he should perhaps be singled out as the only occupant of CREEK HAVEN, who made the best of attempts to move from motion to movement when he commission...

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