APM Terminals and its consortium partners have announced plans to develop a new greenfield mega-port project and Free Trade Zone at Badagry in Nigeria's Lagos State, 55 kilometres west of Apapa and the Port of Lagos on the Benin-Lagos Expressway, according to an APM press release. At full build-out, the deep-water full-service port will be one of the largest in Africa with 7km of quay and 1 000 hectares of dedicated yard, and will include state-of the art facilities for container, bulk, liquid bulk, ro/ro and general cargo as well as oil and gas operations support and a barge terminal. Plans for the adjoining Badagry free trade zone (FTZ) will include a power plant, oil refinery, industrial park and warehousing and inland container depot functions. The first phase of the project is scheduled to open in 2016.