Shippers Council wants FG to focus on export cargo after COVID-19

Harboursandport.com: Lagos - The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, Hassan Bello has said that the Federal Government must focus more on the export of goods through the port ports.

This is even as the shippers’ council boss stressed the need for government agencies operating at the port to reduce their levies and charges as shipping companies and terminal operators have done as a means of further stimulating business in the port industry.

Bello stressed this point yesterday when the Council played host to the organised private sector in Lagos.

Present at the meeting were representatives of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture, NICCIMA, Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN and the Shippers Association of Lagos State, SAL.

He noted that the export cargo would provide the needed foreign exchange at a time like this when the prices of crude have dropped significantly.

He further disclosed the NSC has been facilitating the meeting of all the stakeholders in the industry to ensure that port operations continue uninterrupted.

Bello explained that the meeting with the organised private sector is part of efforts to harness their contribution since they are the ones that use the port the most.

The representative of the President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Margaret Orakwusi, said it is important that government agencies in the sector to focus more on how to grow the business in the country instant of the importance presently placed on revenue collection.