The Atlantique Marine and Engineering Services (AMES)-Edo Inland Dry Port will commence trial exports from its domestic export warehouse in February, an official has said.
Mr Isaac Ebewele, member of the port’s Management Board, said in Benin on Monday that it had obtained the license to operate.
”So we want to begin with trial export. We want to test run the export warehouse before asking the world to bring their cosignment for shipping.
”In doing this, we shall use our own products as samples to organisations in the UK,” he said.
The board member said that pre- shipment activities such as packaging, labeling, fumigation, pre-shipment inspection among others, would be done at the domestic export warehouse.
He further stated that security and regulatory agencies would be on ground to enforce operational guidelines and rules.
According to him, the port’s ground breaking ceremony will be done as soon as the trial export is perfected.
”Our plan is open the warehouse up to the public before the end of the first quarter of 2022,” he said.
AMES- Edo Dry Port was licensed by the Nigerian Export Promotion Council earlier in January to operate a domestic export warehouse.
