Mercury Maritime Concession Company Limited (MMCC) and Port of Antwerp, as the marine infrastructure developer, are collaborating to build the proposed $2.9 billion Escravos Seaport Industrial Complex (ESIC), ESIC-1 in Delta State, Nigeria.
The ESIC project includes the Escravos deep seaport, free trade zone (in three major layouts), oil and gas free trade zone, indutrial layouts to serve domestic purposes, independent power plant (IPP), golf course, development of prime infrastructure, new towns and cities, and international airport. The land infrastructure component of the project will be handled by James Cubic Architect, an expatriate company.
The first phase of the port project will be opening up of the water channels along Escravos–Pantami–Onitsha, while phase two of the channelization will be from Onitsha–Lokoja–Baro and Onitsha–Lokoja–Markurdi.
