AN EVALUATION OF THE INLAND TRANSPORTATION AND ITS EFFECT ON LOGISTICS IN NIGERIA
Abstract
Waterway transportation is extremely important in the transfer of humans, commodities, and
values from one riverine location to another all over the world. The enormous coastal trade
opportunities it present for indigenous shipping companies in Nigeria overtime failed due to
shipping policy in place over the years, directed on such trade. This study tends to evaluate the
inland transportation and its effects on logistics in Lagos State.
The study adopted survey design research, carried out in Lagos metropolis. The population of this
study involved all the inland transportation users’ in the selected waterways terminals within
Lagos metropolis, where 150 of them are incidentally sampled. The research used only primary
source of data and analyzed them via descriptive and multiple regression analysis.
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