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NPA begins decongestion of ports

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The Matters Press by The Matters Press
June 30, 2023
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Importers, exporters will benefit from Nigeria’s dry ports

Lagos, June 30, 2023: The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has commenced the evacuation of overtime cargoes to help decongest the port.

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Mrs Josephine Moltok, General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, NPA, said this in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos on Thursday.

“The sustained advocacy of management of NPA for the decongestion of the ports to pave way for efficient operations received a boost on June 23 when Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transportation, Dr Magdelene Ajani led an inter-agency team on assessment tour.

“The team comprising of the NPA, Nigerian Customs (NCS) and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) made an assessment tour of overtime cargoes littering the ports.

“The Lagos and Tincan Island Port Complexes and the Terminals therein including Ikorodu Lighter Terminal have over the years been occupied with 3,200 Units of overtime cars and about 3,295 units of overtime containers respectively.

“And the eastern ports have a combined total of 956 overtime containers.

“This awkward situation apart from constraining terminal spaces required for seamless cargo handling operations in the ports, has contributed to deterioration of port infrastructure,” she said.

She added that the port infrastructure are designed as transit locations as opposed to holding dead weight tonnages for years which these age long overtime cargo constitute.

“Following the inspection tour which held on June 23 and June 24 respectively, an all-stakeholder sensitization involving shipping lines, and association of freight forwarders and clearing agents was convened on June 26.

“It was unanimously agreed that all cargoes and container that have overstayed their required time at the ports should be auctioned “in-situ” (In their current locations) and removed immediately from the ports,” she said.

Moltok said that to assure transparency and inclusiveness, the modalities to govern the auction process wouldl be finalised by all stakeholders.

She added that this would be after a similar sensitisation meeting with stakeholders in the eastern ports of Warri, Rivers, Onne and Calabar.

It will be recalled that Mohammed Bello-Koko, Managing Director, NPA had at several fora sought the cooperation of the NCS to ensure speedy removal of overtime cargo from the Ports and terminal yards.

This is to free up space and preserve the durability of the capital intensive port infrastructure.

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