Truck Owners Want NPA To Regulate Parking At FOT

The Association of
Maritime Trucks Owners (AMATO) has urged the management of the Nigeria Ports Authority NPA and other agencies to assist the association in coordination of the activities of trucks at the Federal Ocean Terminal Trucks Parks.
Speaking to The Tide in Port Harcourt on Friday, the association’s consultant, Chief Chris Orode, said the cooperation and Coordination have become necessary in view of the large number of trucks daily coming into the trucks park.
He said the cooperation and coordination of the Nigeria Ports Authority with the association would compel its members to park on designated area and decongest the roads around the port corridor.
Orode said the trucks park would be expanded in future to accommodate more trucks with the increase in port business transaction within the oil and gas free zone.
He said the association has embarked on building a new trucks park in Lagos through private partnership initiative.
He said AMATO leadership is out to ensure that trucks have a proper place to park to avoid confrontation with local government authorities on unnecessary taxations.
The association’s consultant enjoined the Nigeria Ports Authority, Federal Ministry of Transport and the Presidential Monitoring Committee on Ports Reform to support the association laudable efforts of building the trucks park at the Trade fair complex, along Badagry expressway Lagos.
He said the trucks park will generate more revenues to the government with proper cooperation and coordination among the stakeholders in the maritime sector.

Philip Okparaji