Harboursandport.com: Lagos--- Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) will stop receiving empty
containers into the port from truckers as from this week as a means of
controlling the traffic situation around the port town of Apapa.
To this end, the Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, has directed Port Managers in the Lagos area to stop receiving containers directly from importers and their agents from next week.
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Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman |
Recall that at a stakeholders meeting held in Apapa to find
lasting solution to the lingering traffic situation around the port town,
shipping companies were asked to provide holding bays for their empty
containers were such containers are to remain until they are ready to be
shipped out.
With the new directive to the Port Managers, only
containers coming from each shipping company’s holding bay will be allowed
access into the port from next week.
Confirming this in Lagos, Port Manager
of Tin-can Island port, Engr. Emmanuel Akporherhe, said they may start
enforcing the directive next week.
He said most of the problems are a fall out of the
one created by empty containers returning to the port, noting that solving the
problem will ease others and create opportunity for maintenance work on the
road to commence.
According to
the Port Manager, “Most of the shipping companies do not have holding bays, it
is no more news. We published their holding bays in the papers recently, some even
put down the capacity of their holding bays.
“Very soon, according to the Managing Director, if
you do not have holding bay your empties will not have anywhere to come from
because only those who holding by will be allowed into the port,” he concluded.
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