NPA Enforces Minimum Safety Standards At Ports
The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Mallam Habib Abdullahi has called on all stakeholders in the Maritime Industry especially Truck Owners using the ports to show greater support and understanding in the quest by Management to uphold the enforcement and implementation of the minimum standard for trucks entering the Ports. The Managing Director made this call at the flag off of the enforcement of registration and implementation of minimum standards for all trucks doing business in Western Ports. He affirmed that the exercise was necessary as a result of Management’s concern to prevent constant incidence that has led to loss of lives of innocent citizens within and outside the ports as well as meeting International standards on safety.
Lekki Deep Sea Port Hit a Snag
The absence of a plan to construct a rail link that will ease cargo evacuation will create delay in the Federal Government's commitment of $118 million to the construction of Lekki Deep Seaport in Lagos, as per a report in Daily Independent. The deep seaport project is a $1.5 billion public private partnership project among the Federal Government (represented by the Nigerian Ports Authority), the Lagos State Government and the Tolaram Group, a Singaporean investor who are promoters of the project. Lekki deep seaport, Nigeria’s biggest seaport project estimated to cost over $1.55 billion worth of investment capital, has set 2018 as its business commencement date as well as operational take-off date.
