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Nigeria seeks task force input to seek causes and cure for port congestion
THE Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has enlisted a task force to determine the causes Lagos port congestion as year-on-year third quarter throughput increased 5.8 per cent to 494,774 TEU.
The task force consists of naval personnel, port police, the Federal Road Safety Commission and the Marine and Operations Division of NPA.
It will attempt to find solutions for the ports' chronic congestion. Longshore gangs are working overtime with customs officials to clear boxes, the NPA said in a press release.
Year-to-date, throughput volumes totalled 1.4 million TEU, up 10.9 per cent from 2013's nine-month total of 1.2 million TEU, according to Newark's Journal of Commerce.
Congestion has been an issue all year at Nigerian ports, especially at the Lagos Port Complex. The ports are seeing more vessel calls - 1,405 compared to 1,366 last year, a 2.9 per cent increase - and volume growth is outpacing infrastructure expansion.
Striking customs agents have made the problem worse in early November by staging a 10-day strike which was estimated to have a daily impact of US$208 million on the Nigerian economy.
To overcome the delays, the NPA said it was encouraging shippers to use the country's underutilised satellite ports.
The task force consists of naval personnel, port police, the Federal Road Safety Commission and the Marine and Operations Division of NPA.
It will attempt to find solutions for the ports' chronic congestion. Longshore gangs are working overtime with customs officials to clear boxes, the NPA said in a press release.
Year-to-date, throughput volumes totalled 1.4 million TEU, up 10.9 per cent from 2013's nine-month total of 1.2 million TEU, according to Newark's Journal of Commerce.
Congestion has been an issue all year at Nigerian ports, especially at the Lagos Port Complex. The ports are seeing more vessel calls - 1,405 compared to 1,366 last year, a 2.9 per cent increase - and volume growth is outpacing infrastructure expansion.
Striking customs agents have made the problem worse in early November by staging a 10-day strike which was estimated to have a daily impact of US$208 million on the Nigerian economy.
To overcome the delays, the NPA said it was encouraging shippers to use the country's underutilised satellite ports.
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