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December 24, 2021 No Responses

NPA Appoints Ibrahim Nasiru, Six Others As General Managers

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has approved the appointment of seven new General Managers, including Mr Ibrahim Nasiru, who was the Assistant General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications. Nasiru, the new General Manager, Corporate & Strategic Communications, in a statement...

December 20, 2021 No Responses

APM Terminals Apapa Handles 8.1m TEUs Of Containers

APM Terminals Apapa, handled more than 8.1 million Twenty Equivalent Units (TEUs) of containers in the past 15 years. A statement issued by Manager, Mr Steen Knudsen, explained that container volumes increased by an average of 23 per cent annually...

December 5, 2021 No Responses

NPA Projects Full Digitisation By 2025

Deliberate measures and investments are being undertaken to create a fully digital ecosystem in all the Nigeria’s port locations by 2025, Acting Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko has said. Acc...

November 30, 2021 No Responses

ANLCA Tasks FG On East-West Road Dualization

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has decried the effects of bad roads on ease of doing business in the southern part of Nigeria. They, therefore, urged the Federal Government to speed up action on the East-west Road...

November 20, 2021 No Responses

NPA Declares N256.28b Revenue In Nine Months

Between January and September 2021, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) attained N256.28billion revenue as against the expected N214.65billion. Acting Managing Director of NPA, Mohammed Bello Koko, in documents presented to the House of Representatives Committee on...

November 8, 2021 No Responses

NPA Boss Reiterates Support For Electronic Call Up System

Acting Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mr Mohammed Bello-Koko, has reiterates support for the electronic call-up system, also called ‘Eto’, the policy deployed to check congestion at the ports. Speaking in Lagos on Sunday, Bell...

October 30, 2021 No Responses

Shippers To Improve Shipping Activities At Onne, Warri Ports

The Shipping Trade Practitioners Association of Nigeria (STPAON) has pledged to boost shipping activities at Cross River, Rivers, and Delta states, popularly known as the Eastern ports. The shipping ports are in Calabar, Onne and Warri, of the three respe...

October 24, 2021 No Responses

NPCC Seeks Support For Single Window At Nigeria’s ports

The Chairman, Nigerian Ports Consultative Council (NPCC), Otunba Kunle Folarin has called for the establishment of the National Single Window at the nation’s seaports. Otunba Folarin made the call when he led the Nigerian Ports Consultative Council (NP...

October 19, 2021 No Responses

NPA Upgrades Control Tower

The management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is poised to ensure optimal utilisation of its facilities across the nation’s seaports, Acting Managing Director, Mohammed Bello-Koko has said. He made this known in a statement on Monday ...

October 13, 2021 No Responses

AfCFTA: NPA Reiterates Support For Intra-African Trade

By ebosele@hotmail.com All seaports in Nigeria are being repositioned as efficient and reliable gateways as part of measures to optimise trade interconnectivity with other countries under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, A...

October 12, 2021 No Responses

Shipping: Amaechi Charges Committee To Eliminate Delays, Corrupt Practices

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Tuesday In Abuja charged the Committee of Experts, Union of African Shippers Council (UASC) to ensure all elements of cost relating to delays, corrupt practices are eliminated from the system. Amaechi, who was re...

October 12, 2021 No Responses

Adesina Flays Extortions At Nigerian Seaports

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com — The President of Africa Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina has advised the Federal Government to clean up what he described as administrative bottlenecks at the nation’s seaports. Speaking on Monday...

October 12, 2021 No Responses

Adesina: Why Nigerian Seaports Lag Behind In Africa

By Mosess Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com — Today, the leading ports for West Africa are in Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic, President of Africa Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina has said. According to Adesina, ...

October 11, 2021 No Responses

NPA Explains New Measures To Address Apapa Gridlock

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has introduced various measures to address the endemic vehicular gridlock in Apapa, it’s acting Managing Director, Mr Mohammed Bello-Koko, has said. A statement by Mr Olaseni Alakija, General Manager, Corporate and St...