Optimized Asset Strategies at West Africa’s Top Terminal

Nexus Global supported a major Nigerian container terminal—the largest in West Africa—to improve maintenance work execution and cost accuracy. Using our APM approach, we coached planning & scheduling, refined job plans, aligned code usage (including IFS), and built asset strategies that raise uptime and reliability.

Client Challenge (work execution & cost accuracy)

As West Africa’s largest container terminal—and Nigeria’s best‑equipped—the site needed consistent planning & scheduling, reliable job plans, and accurate time/cost estimates to sustain high berth productivity and equipment availability.

Nexus Global Approach (APM Coaching + Asset Strategies)

Planning & Scheduling Discipline

• Weekly plan–do–check cadence

• Enforce schedule freeze

• Kitting/materials readiness gates

Job Plans, Estimates, and Materials Readiness

• Standardize job plans (scope, tools, parts, safety, estimates)

• Improve estimate accuracy and cost coding

CMMS / IFS Usage and Maintenance Measures

• Strengthen notifications, work types, and closeout data in IFS

• Track maintenance measures linked to uptime and cost variance

“The level of detail required in job plans to assure a high-quality repair was lacking and estimates of time and cost were highly inaccurate,” confirms Larry Olson, Nexus Global CEO/President. “Through coaching and mentoring, we can support their maintenance and operations team to improve uptime, provide long-term forecasting of cost and resources, and reduce overall operating costs.”

Early Outcomes & Expected Impact

Result: higher plan quality, better schedule adherence, and clearer cost forecasting—enabling leadership to see the full value of planning & scheduling and to target uptime on critical handling assets.

Why It Matters for Ports & Terminals

Ports operate 24/7 with tight berth windows; delays cascade across vessels and inland logistics. Standardized job plans, disciplined scheduling, and reliable CMMS closeout data help terminals predict labor and parts, protect availability on quay cranes and RTGs, and improve cost accuracy for finance and operations.

Olson concludes, “The results from this project will promote efficiency and directly impact the performance levels of the entire maintenance team. This in turn will influence the organization’s capacity, availability, and reliability of their assets and allow management to see the full value of planning & scheduling. We look forward to assisting them on their reliability journey.”