The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has inaugurated a joint Task Team\/Committee to handle issues of congestion caused by overtime cargoes across the ports.
\nThis was done to decongest the ports, make them more operational and yield more revenue.
\nThe committee is to ensure that all delayed cargoes are evacuated in order to create space for use at the ports.
\nManaging Director, NPA, Mohammed Bello Koko stated this during a stakeholders\u2019 sensitisation meeting of overtime cargos, organised by the Joint Task Team\/Committee handling issues of overtime cargoes at port\/terminal locations in the country held at the Eastern Ports, Port Harcourt.
\nHe noted that the congestion of the ports with cargoes impedes ports operations
\n\u201cWe want to ensure free movement of cargoes in the ports, the era of abandoned cargoes is gone, we want to improve ports service for efficiency\u201d, he was quoted as saying.
\nHe stated that the committee would ensure that cargoes do not over stay at the ports unnecessarily.
\n\u201cIf there is inadequate space, it deprives NPA of needed revenue to make for their operation. Overtime cargoes are a common thing in the ports\u201d, he said.
\nRepresented by the Port Manager, Onne, Stanley Majagi Eno, Koko said further that when space in the terminal becomes clogged, it affects movement of cargoes.
\n\u201cBefore the cargo operator picks a new container, old ones have to be removed, and that means multiple handlings.
\n\u201cWhen Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) decides to auction the cargoes, the owner gets nothing, the terminal operators get nothing\u201d, he noted.
\nThe Managing Director continued that one of the reasons freights in Coutonou ports were lower than what it is in Nigeria was issues of overtime cargos that have affected berthing of ships.
\n\u201cOur concern is how issues of overtime cargo can be resolved. These are common problems everywhere.
\n\u201cNPA is willing to collaborate, to give all its resources, to ensure we have good results from this exercise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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