The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) will commence electronic call up system at Lagos Seaports in August this year (2019).
Briefing Journalists at the end of the media tour of the ports access roads in Lagos on Friday, Traffic Manager, Lagos Port Complex and member of the Presidential Task Team on Decongestion of Apapa Traffic, Mr. Victor Ogini explained that the electronic call up system was undergoing procurement processes and would be deployed in August.
Speaking in a similar vein, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello said: “The call up system, manual at first will be decided in a week or so time whereby trucks are called only when they are needed so that not everybody will rush to Apapa and from there we migrate to electronic call up system”.
He explained that the NPA was a lead agency on this, adding that all the concerned parties including the shipping companies and the terminal operators are involved.
According to him, some terminals have their own call up system. “We have holding bays, we have the trailer park, they are going to be available. The Lillypond has already started courtesy of NPA and this will of course militate against the traffic overflow on roads leading to and from the port.
“We have also private parks, Shippers’ Council has been able to identify about 54 of them. Some will be put to use and once we have combination of all these, then,you will see that we will have sanity on the road”
