The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said that it hoped to see more cargoes moving down to the Eastern port this year.
The General Manager Corporate and Strategic Communications of NPA, Mr
Adams Jatto, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) in Lagos on Saturday.
According to him, due to the border closure, the Lagos ports
witnessed a tremendous influx of cargoes which led to its congestion.
He added that the authority was still making every effort to ensure
that it coped with the volume of cargoes coming in, adding that the
terminal operators, the handlers, were doing very well in decongesting
the port.
“We are aware that we have overtime cargoes in the port due to
delays, but efforts are being made by Customs and stakeholders to ensure
these cargoes are evacuated to make way for accommodating more cargoes.
“Efforts are also being made to make the Eastern ports more viable
because from what we have been seeing due to the border closure, more
cargoes are now moving to the East and we hope to see more of that this
year.
“Moving these cargoes to the Eastern port is a good thing because it
is observed that most of the cargoes that are Lagos bound, most of this
consignment are meant for the East.
“We cannot force people to take their cargo from one place to the
other, it is the owner of the cargo that determines where the cargo will
go.
“So, cargoes meant for the East should be taken to the Eastern port to ease means of their doing business,” he said.
Jatto pointed out that there were issues as regards the Eastern ports which NPA was looking into.
He said Onne Port, in Rivers had a bad road and the means of
evacuating cargo from the port is 90 per cent through the road network.
He noted that the NPA management was talking with agencies involved
such as the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing and the Federal
Ministry of Niger Delta.
According to him, the agencies are the ones who did the road from Port Harcourt to Onne.
Jatto said that there were assurances that the road would be repaired as soon as possible.
He stated that the Authority believed that by the time the road was
repaired there would be ease of moving cargo from Onne to places such as
Onitsha and Aba.
On the use of badges on the waterways, he said the main focus this
year was licencing of operators to ensure that the job was effectively
done and measures put to ensure the best operators were licenced.
Jatto said that NPA was concerned about carrying out the responsibility of inspection before the permit was issued to operators.
He, however, observed that badge operations were important in terms of cargo movement.
Jatto said that the ultimate goal for NPA was to have an electronic
call-up system and parks for the truck to help reduce congestion on the
road and ports.
“The port managers are doing their best in the circumstances that we
are, the ultimate goal is for us to have the electronic call ups.
“What we have now is being done manually and we expect that this kind of hiccup will be there.
“What we want to do is to ensure we have parked outside the port
area, outside Lagos, and the NPA management is discussing with the Ogun
and Lagos State governments to ensure we have a park for these trucks.
“We are not looking at the short term solutions but equally in the long term,” he said.
He urged stakeholders to keep hope alive as the Authority was doing
things in 2020 to ensure there was free flow of traffic in the port to
enhance ease of doing business.
He also urged those in the East to be rest assured that machinery was
being put in place to ensure that the Port Harcourt port was
reactivated.
He said that the Authority had commenced the procurement process to
make the port more viable and revived adding that procurement of tug
boats and security boats were in motion to help tackle security issues.
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