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Container Operations Resumes In Port Harcourt Wharf, July
Efforts are on top gear to ensure that full container cargo operations that has eluded the Port Harcourt Port for some time now is fully returned, at lest in July this year.
To this end importers within the South-Eastern States, particularly in Ontisha, Nnewi and Aba have been wooed to patronise the Port Harcourt Port, while the concessionaire piloting the return of containerised operations at the port; the Ports and Terminal Operators Limited (PTOL) is working round the clock towards the exercise.
Making this known in a chat with The Tide in his office last Thursday the Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Port Harcourt Sea Port Onne, Chief Obi Chima, said the port is now set for the operations of container cargo.
According to chief Obi, PTOL has put the necessary infrastructure in place including the container handling equipment as well as cargo/container starking areas.
He said they have taken pains to reach out to importers, so as to attract their attention to some facilities that are now available at the Port Harcourt Whart.
The ANLCA chairman also explained that container cargo operations is the main business as far as maritime operations is concerned, pointing out that the bulk cargo operations for which Port Harcourt Port have been known for over the year can not be compared with the containerise/general cargo operations.
Obi posited that all things being equal, the full operations of the general container operations will be at work in July adding that this will indeed turn around the business posture that had been very dull in the port, which will have a multiplier effect on other small-scale businesses.
On why there had not been any other vessel since the last time in early 2009 when PTOL had a container vessel, Chief Obi said that the last vessel was a chartered one, but that a steady one is now ready for continuous operation at the Port Harcourt Port, stressing that many importers are very willing now to use the port.
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