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UBER BOAT launched in Lagos, Nigeria. [PHOTO CREDIT: Reuters Official Twitter handle]

UBER BOAT launched in Lagos, Nigeria. [PHOTO CREDIT: Reuters Official Twitter handle]

Uber launches ‘boat taxis’ on Lagos waters

byKunle Sanni
October 12, 2019
1 min read
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American transportation company, Uber, has launched boats as a means of transportation in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub.

The firm already runs a thriving online road taxi business in Nigeria.

The Inland transportation is in partnership with the Texas Connection Ferries, a local boat operator, and the Lagos State Waterways Authority, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

According to the report, the UberBoat will only be operational on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for N500 ($1.39) per trip, the ride-hailing company said.

Lagos, which was ranked third most stressful city in the world, according to a 2017 study conducted by UK-based drycleaning and laundry service, Zipjet. – has one of the highest car densities in the world, with about 200 cars per kilometer, causing traffic congestion.

The need to develop other means of transportation in a complex mega city like Lagos has become a major concern for successive administrations in the state.

The former Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Agency, Olorunnibe Mamora, who is currently the minister of health, state, on 2019, urged the Lagos State Government to invest more in water transportation.

Initiative

Uber’s Chief Business Officer, Brooks Entwistle, had earlier said in June that the company was in talks with Lagos government and regulatory authorities to start UberBoats to ease traffic congestion in the city.

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The company, in 2017 launched its boats in Cairo, Egypt in partnership with Nile Taxi.

The boat service, priced at 50 per cent of current fares, is “aimed at providing commuters with an easy and affordable way to get in and out of the city’s business districts,” the firm had said

It added that customers will also get a 50 per cent discount on Uber taxis “when used for rides to the boat jetty.”

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