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Port Manager Wants FG To Dredge Rivers Dockyard
The Port Manager, Rivers Port, Nigeria Ports Authority, (NPA), Alhaji Abubakar Umar has appealed to the Federal Government and the management of NPA to dredge the Rivers Port Dockyard to increase vessel traffic.
Alhaji Abubakar also said the dredging of the dockyard would improve revenue generation in the port and create more jobs for the youth.
The Rivers Port manager stated this in Port Harcourt during a quarterly stakeholders meeting with the Managing Director, NPA, Mrs Hadiza Bala Usman at the dockyard complex.
Represented by the Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Mohamed Bello Koko, Alhaji Abubakar said, the port was confronted with a lot of operational challenges such as lack of finger jetty at the dockyard, operational tug boats and patrol boats; thereby lowering efficiency delivery in the port.
He also listed lack of functional water hydrants at the quays as a constraint hampering its service delivery at the port.
Alhaji Abubakar insisted that the expansion of the port would increase productivity, noting that Rivers Port serves as a hub centre of transshipment.
On e-Payment and e-Manifest, he said, Rivers Port management has fully embraced the e-payment and e-manifest system even as shipping agents have reduced complaints to its barest minimum.
Alhaji Abubakar said, management has improved the signal unit of the harbour with the provision of modern communication equipment for effective communication between Bonny station and the port.
He said that management was working assiduously to complete the rehabilitation of the common user area at the Port Terminal Operation Limited, (PTOL), terminal.
On its social responsibility projects, Alhaji Abubakar said, they include general renovation of old Adraine warehouse converted to office for Rivers Port Complex, the ongoing renovation of State Primary School, Ido, Rivers State and others.
Chinedu Wosu