For too long, four of the most valuable assets Delta State owns have sat idle — Warri, Koko, Sapele and Burutu ports. Every week that these ports remain underused is a week of lost jobs, lost trade, and lost opportunity for our people. I am an engineer before I am anything else, and I look at these ports the way an engineer looks at a broken machine: not as a talking point, but as a system that can be fixed, rebuilt, and put back to work. Why the dockyard matters